We have had a lovely time at Lo and Richard's anmd are sad to be leaving especially as it means packing everything back into rucksacks. We finally managed to be around in a place for long enough to attend a quiz night (stu had been waiting for a while). We were fueled with lots of smarties (and called ourselves the smarties) and managed to get quite a few questions right including the exchange rate for mexical pesos (not surprisingly) and the author of L...

The Tamaki Tour was excellent - we had to paddle our Waka (canoe) Which was in fact a bus to go to the village. We appointed a chief from our bus, John, and arrived at the outskirts. At that point the warriors would come and try and frighten us away by pulling silly faces and sticking thir tongues out. We were not allowed to laugh as they tried to intimidate us. This finished with us being accepted and having to touch noses twice (Three times means you will get m...