Has it really been five weeks since we picked up the campervan? Have we really being sharing shower facilities with skanky looking campers for five weeks? Have we really not seen telly for five weeks!?!?! It was thoughts like these that weighed heavy on our minds as we made our way to Auckland to drop the van off. We both definately had mixed emotions when saying goodbye to the van. I had really enjoyed driving again and loved the experience of living in a camper...

The Bay of Islands is supposed to be one of the best places to visit in New Zealand and we had left it until near the end hoping that it would provide a great finale to the our New Zealand adventure - if you don't count the few days in Auckland that we had to come afterwards. we had left it until near the end hoping that it would provide a great finale to the our New Zealand camping adventure and I think it was eventaully. Things started badly when we stopped o...

Coromandel is a place that we weren't going to go to but just decided that as a few people had recommended it to us we could find the time to head there. It's a jut of land that sits up on the east coast of the north island and not that many people live there, the biggest town in the whole place probably only has about 10,000 people living there. It's mainly used as a holidaying area for Aucklanders due to it being near Auckland (which helps) and the fact that it...

It's fair to say that Rotorua stinks, and I mean actually stinks. This is because of the many volcanos in the near area which mean lava underneath the ground and therefore lots of hot springs, spurting geysers and big mud pools that periodically bubble and let go a mass of sulphur rich air in one gigantic fart. So amazingly 76,000 people actually live in a city that permanently smells of eggy farts. Unbelievable really. On the way from Taupo we stopped off at on...

I know what you are thinking: "don't let Rhiannon near the blog again!" Well i'll try but I think you can expect lots more from her as she seeks to cement her legendary status. Just wait for her "thoughts on New Zealand blog" coming very soon. I know this is the third entry for Taupo but lots happened there and I just wanted to add my congratulations to Rhiannon for doing the skydive. I can confirm that it did in fact happen, she really did j...