Today we decided to get out of the campsite for a while, so we drove to Hanmer Forest on the edge of town and went for a walk through the woods. When we got back to the van, the sun was shining so we got our chairs out (a rare event during our time here!) and sat and read our books for a while, enjoying the good weather.

We drove back to town and treated ourselves to lunch at the Monteith's bar - a massive plate of fish and chips for me (still no proper English chips!) and a chicken stack for Laura, plus our favourite NZ beers, a Radler's and a Summer Ale. Apparently, they sell them in Tesco so we'll have to hunt for them when we get back!

In the afternoon, we went back to the site for the final LOTR instalment - the best of the lot and Laura's favourite!

After tea, we watched You, Me and Dupree until we could take no more and went to bed! Tomorrow, we'll finally do what we came here for and visit the Springs!