Another beautiful walk, another beautiful day. Vick and I headed onto the bright lights and big city. Having been in the wilderness for what seems like a very long time, a buzzing city was quite a welcome sight! Auckland is a great city, enough that Vick would happily live there (and me too after Queenstown!). Known as the City of Sails, Auckland is nestled over lots of bits and pieces of ground just before the pointy bit at the top of NZ (great geographical expl...

You know when you suddenly think to yourself, "screw it, you only live once, let's do this"? Well, that's what Vick and I thought that rainy morning after our bath (in the naturally heated pool!). The drive to the most northern point of new zealand was around 700-800km and well worth it! Originally we were just going to visit the Bay of Islands about an hour north of Auckland. But the rain in Matamata meant that we would have to hang around for a day in the rain...

Well hello there! So where did I leave you? Oh yes, I think we were around Lake Taupo - the lake that smelt like egg sandwiches! The afternoon after I had written to all you lovely people Vick and I headed north towards the coast. We wanted to find Hot Water Beach where you can bury your feet into the sand and warm them up because of the two fissures. Turns out that this beach wasn't anywhere near to where we were so we decided to head slightly further then we i...

From our morning of wildnerness Vick and I drove into Napier where we had the most incredible panini's at this little coffee shop. It decided it was going to rain cats and dogs so it was perfect timing! Unfortunately Vikki's toe still looked a bit gammy and hadn't fully recovered from when she had been taking antibiotics for it, so she headed to the docs to get it sorted. In the end they booked her in for a toe avulsion so they could take her big toe nail off and...

Scenic routes always look like they will be pretty spectacular. And, quite frankly they usually are. When it's not storming or sea mist that is. On the way from Kaikoura to Picton I thought it would be a good idea to loop around the coast to the scenic route, rather than the boring straight road that went straight past. This was a good idea up until the sea fog crept in and we were winding our way for 42km if I remember correctly up this gravel path perilously cl...