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We awoke quite early on Saturday morning and ended up ordering room service for breakfast as it was a little too long a wait before we'd get at Brisbane airport! Our Cathay flight up to Hong Kong had a stop in Cairns and overall was a pretty non eventful experience.We had about 3 1/2 hours to kill in Hong Kong airport and so worked our way from one end of the airport to the other trying all the lounges. We had a shower in one, some food in another and drinks ...

After our last breakfast on the balcony in Taupo we started the 4 hour drive up to Auckland. Not a lot to report about the drive, few areas of roadworks, some nice little towns and green scenery all around. We dumped our hire car at the airport and took the bus into town where we got checked in to our hotel for the night. As we'd been to Auckland before and didn't have much time we decided to just have a general wonder around, which then turned into havin...

Monday started with some leftover pizza for breakfast before our next road trip. We were heading to Taupo for a 3 night stay by the lake. The drive took us about 2 hours with some more lovely scenery on the way. We were a little early for checking into our apartment so we parked up by the lake and went for a stroll. After the stroll, some lunch and a visit to the supermarket we were ready to check in. We'd chosen an apartment for this stay and were not disapp...

Friday we started with breakfast in the hotel which was great and filling, exactly what we needed for the adventures ahead. We had organised another tour of some of the regions winerys, but this time on a tandem bike! After a very short trial in a car park, where the bike guy basically said we were rubbish, we set off. After a bit of trial and error we were flying and spent the next 5 1/2 hours cycling about 25 km and stopping at 6 wineries. The sun had been out ...