Hello all! Today we are all quite excited as we are just finishing our last few days of work! Can't believe that we have been here for five weeks already...we are planning to head back up towards lake Taupo, then down to Tongariro National Park before coming back to Napier as we have tickets to watch England play cricket! (Neil's idea). Work for all of us has been off and on. Neil and Rach have been working for the same guy in vineyards but work hasn't always b...

When you look at a map of Newzealand, Hawkes Bay looks like it should stretch from Nuhaka or Wairoa all the way down to Napier and Hastings. This didn't seem to be the case when we arrived in Wairoa looking for work and the lady in the tourist information told us that our best bet was Hawkes Bay??? We didn't really want to go too far down the coast, probably no further than Raupunga because we were wanting to go back up on days off to see the East Cape. We had he...