We got the bus yesterday from Taupo. It was only a 2 hour drive to Napier but the scenery was absolutely fantastic, rolling hills and meadows, I mention this because there was no photo that I could use to represent Napier until I upload some more photos so thought the picture above was slightly reminiscent of the journey (clutching at straws basically). Napier is absolutely beautiful. If anyones ever in the North Island and you get chance you most come and see t...

We decided in the end to venture to the prawn park yesterday and are we glad we did?! It was really good fun but it was a little late in the day when we set off because didn't realise how much there'd be to do there so had to miss a few things out. We were taken on tour behind the scenes of the prawn park and learnt loads of 'interesting' prawn facts, we got to feed baby prawns (this really freaked me out I'm not good with feeding animals so i...

We arived in Taupo about 11 on Tuesday morning. The guy from the hostel we were staying in came to pick us up from the bus stop. He asked us what we were planning on doing while we were here and I stupidly mentioned we were planning on doing a skydive (we had been told that not only was Taupo an awesome place to do it it was also the cheapest place in the world). So he said we should book to do it that afternoon as the weather was perfect and the last few days ha...

So we had a lovely last few days with Chrissie (sorry for any spelling mistakes this computer is gay and the 'e' and the 't' buttons in particular don't seem to want to cooperate). We went winetasting (wit woo), went to see the powerboats at Mareatai beach and had a fab bbq on our last day. You guys have all been absolutely brilliant I can't thank you all enough. Will send you a postcard to keep you updated but I'm missing you all alre...

So we've been taking it pretty easy the last few days as its been quite hot but really humid so feels a lot worse than it actually is. Christine's taken us on a tour of the local area, taking in the sights of Half Moon Bay, One Tree Hill (this dormant volcano which once had one tree on but doesn't anymore! but has fantastic views of the city and suburbs), Whitford and the Eastern Beaches such as Bucklands Beach. We also visited the historic village of Howick (ha ...