10/03/09Got up at 7 after freezing my arse off all night because Burns had stoled all the covers and left a gaping hole between us where the freezing air was swarming in a chilling my back. Got up and went outside to wack the gas on so we could boil the kettle. We all had a cup of tea, drained the grey water and got ready in record time to leave for Rotorua, we arived there by 0830 and went to the tourist info to find out what there was to do. We were all pretty ...

08/03/09 We woke up fairly late, I went to the Hundertwasser's Public Toilets and washed myself from head to toe there, made a flood on the floor and filled a powerade bottle up with the free soap. The girls and I wandered around Kawakawa towns gift/craft shops, saw some really cool paintings where the artist had used words written in the shape of what the word depicted to paint the entire picture. We emptied the grey water then set off south. After about 300 Km...

07/03/09 We got up and drove to Harrisons Cape Runner tours. Our first stop was the Ancient Kauri Kingdom, where we got to see some giant logs that had been dug up from the land after being buried head first during a Tsunami over a Km high. One of the trees was so big they had carved a staircase through the middle of it. There were also loads of chainsaw carvings from the competitions they had held there. We stopped off at a random beach beacuse there was white ...

04/03/09 Woke up at about 9 and spent a good hour and a half getting ready to leave. There was the classic predicement of where the girls could go to the toilet, on three sides the main road was visable and on the other a train track crossing which was frequently being used by trucks to stock up on gravel. They chose their time well and managed to finish just before a car drove down towards the train track. We left the layby at around half 10 and drove to Waipu....

28/02/09 Woke up at 0715 and thought 's***, I haven't packed anything', so I brushed my teeth and placed everything in my bag, I was still ready a good 15 minutes before both the girls, they have somme serious packing issues. Got the taxi to the airport and some freaky old bloke checked us in. Spent a bit of time using the free internet in the airport, it was slower and less reliable than the dial up connection I had about 10 years ago. Got an email from Kelvin ...