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now in rotuar or something cant spell any of these maori names, this place has hot spa pool everywhere that are heated geothermically we ve been staying in a really nice hostel for the last 3 days called cactus jacks, its like a maze u cant find ur room ever coz its like a texas sort of lay out and has an indoor hot tub heated by the ground. anyway yes we have to stay here as the van has been in the garage again! really such a pain, the battery and the altomater (think its called that) but its replaced now and didnt cost tooo much. but we re not too sure why it happened as we paid a lot to a mechanic at the start to check the whole thing over, its very hard to know how to trust people as we have no experience with vans! but anyway its on the mend and as long as we get to the south island in a week or so then we ll be fine. tomorw we re heading to the coast to stay with alices uncle who is taking us out for a meal and will meen we will get a nice free bed for a couple of nights. sleeping in teh van really isnt the most enjoyable thing, especally with everyone sleep talking in it! but there we go, anyway then we re back off for a night out in auckland on friday and then to warkworth to a music festival for the weekend where a kiwi reggae sort of band is playing we already new about in england. yesterday we went up a mountain in a cable car and at the top there was this adventure thing were u have lieel go kart things and u wizz down a mountain on a concrete track very exhilerating. i was very lucky as before i bought my ticket i really kind english couple suddenly thrusted a spare couple of tickets, so i didnt have to pay, and then you got a chair life up to the top again. this country is very peculiar like nothing ive been to before and yet it is. the moutnain made us feel like we were in austria or something but then u look to the right and theres white sands and ferns and palm trees.
we ve been meeting lots of very interesting people in these hostels lots of really nice welsh people and germans, the kiwis are so bizar over here they can be really rude in shopping places and bars, very sarcastic in a werid way and no one is as poltie and the english and everyone we meet say that, and we have very posh voices. anyway the money will run out in a min for the internet but will be out of internet site for a couple of days so hope this will keep u in touch lots of love katy xxx
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