Day 6 This freedom camp site is another little treasure, in a park with the river flowing beside us and a local waterfall walk. We have the time so we walk after breakfast to the waterfall and back and head of to Rotorua. Rotorua is the hub of the Maori lands, people and culture here, we head to a Top 10 site and set off exploring. 1st thing we find is a hairdressers Louise has her trim, 2nd thing is shops...... Jeans are purchased (they feel soooooo good, very w...

Day 5 Today was the Rugby World Cup Final and New Zealand are playing Australia.....what timing eh! Once again a wonderful memory moment and we arose at 4am to witness the triumph of the All Blacks. After this we headed towards the next stop off and as we were up so early we made great time. Early afternoon we arrived at the Waitamo Glow Worm Caves and booked our places onto the tour which included another underground cavern. Once again another magical experien...

Day 4 This area is all about the beach here and Cathedral Cove (similar to our Durdle Door in Dorset) so we unhook Bruce (Yep we have named the van) and drive to park and walk to the famous spot. 2 hours later we return from the spectacular walk and drive north to the next largest town to see if we could find a hairdresser. No such luck but we stumbled onto Mercury Bay and Buffalo Beach where Louise flew her kite. We returned to base camp for another random adv...

We awake to the sounds of the waves lapping the rocks, thank our lucky stars and head towards the next stopover point wondering what random adventures will befall us today. Firstly we head to the nearest main town Coromandel, a lovely quaint fishing village (so far they all are) wandered and then we decided to follow the 309 scenic road towards Hot Water Beach as recommended by Tourist Radio. So Tourist Radio is exactly what it says.... You plug a device into the...

Excited.....just a little. So today we explored the Sky Tower in the daylight (awesome view and structure) and hopped back on the sky bus towards the airport to collect the camper. At the airport we board the yellow hopper bus to the depot (well I, Sarah tried to board the orange bus insisting it was yellow, this amused the bus driver and Louise no end, however I didn't look as silly when the yellow bus did eventually arrive and it was white!) The depot comprised...