I know it has been a while since we wrote but we were saving it for something that would interest you!Since our trip up to the North Island we have been chilling pretty much horizontally for a week! Olof came down with a case of the man flu and after realising we had visited thirteen different places and stayed in each place an average of two nights we deserved it! We had visited Taupo on our previous trip to NZ it is where my famous bungy jump took place and we ...

Today we made the mammoth journey from Picton in the South Island all the way up the North Island to Taupo. As we visited the North Island on our last trip we are just catching up on the bits we missed out on last time. In order to catch a connecting bus and not spend the night in Wellington we were catching the 6.25a.m. ferry so we were up at some unearthly hour and we started the crossing in the dark. Luckily it was getting light as we were coming out through ...