On Friday morning we got up and packed a bag for the weekend as we were going with Nan to stay in Roturua at her friend Alf's place. We stopped of at a few picturesque places on the way taking a few photos, and then arrived in Roturua. Immediately we could smell the eggy smell of the Sulphur in the air, which we soon got used to. We drove down Alf's road, admiring all the houses on the street (they were pretty big). We were greeted by his 2 dogs Maddy and Jess. W...

We awoke on the Wednesday after a lovely sleep and did some sorting and washing. We then had a potter into the town for a walk and a look around Cambridge. We enjoyed a lovely meal in the evening with Nan then I spent the evening teaching her how to update her works excel spreadsheet. She was obviously trying to get me back in the swing of stuff for me returning to work. On the Thursday we went for a little drive out to a nature park called 'Maungatautari wildlif...

We arose and spent most of the day catching up with more people and sorting bits out online, before headed out. We headed first to 'The Craters of the Moon' park which was a small park that you could walk round which had loads of volcanic activity. There was massive craters that had steam flying out of them and you could feel the heat coming off the ground. There was also a massive mud crater too. We then headed onto the Honey Bee Centre. We had a look and a try ...

We got up after a lie in aching from the walk we had done yesterday, after getting ready we headed out to a thermal walk area and had a nice very short walk around thermal spring pools and hot mud baths. Afterwards we drove to a place to get some great views of lake Taupo from the south end. We then hit the road and started driving north round the east side of the lake stopping a few times to view it before getting to the town of Taupo. After a browse round the t...

We woke up to possibly our coldest morning yet, our teeth were shattering so we hid under the blanket for a while hoping it would get warmer. It didn't so after a while we got up and headed to the shower block, getting a nice long warm shower to increase our body temperature from near freezing to just above freezing. We then had our wheat Biscuits and got on the road driving to a near by walk. After parking up we headed along a nice walk leading through forests a...