Our last few day in New Zealand went pretty quickly. We decided to go back to Rotorua for a day as we didn't see much the first time round. Tom spent most of the day fishing but unfortunately didn't catch annything, we went to an outdoor concert for a day and saw Dizzy Rascal, Lilly Allen, Kasabian and the highlight of the day Muse! For our last night we treated ourselves after spending six weeks in a tent and checked into a hotel which was lovely. We used the gy...

It wasn't a good start to the day when we went to the kitchen to find our cool bag had been stolen from the fridge along with about $20 worth of food. We set off without any breakfast and the day didn't really get much better as we ended up spending practically all day on the road. Our plan was to head to Gisburn but when we arrived there, the town was a bit of a dump and we decided we didn't want to spend the night. We stopped off at the supermarket to buy some ...

Tom woke up feeling slightly hungover this morning after having too much to drink yesterday afternoon, not great considering we were booked onto a wine tour this afternoon. We checked into the YHA and luckily we had the 3 bod dorm to ourselves. Tom was now feeling better so we had some lunch and waited to be picked up for our tour.There were eight of us in total and we were taken to four wineries in the Hawkes Bay region. The first was slightly pretentious, the s...

We hit the road after going shopping but we were still pretty tired from the trip last night. We set off to Napier which as it turns out was going to take about three and a half hours so instead we opted to stop on a random campsite to spend the evening and enjoy the sunshine.Having done pretty much nothing yesterday it was time to actually get to Napier. We have decided to stay in mostly Hostelling International hostels in the USA/Canada , so we purchased a card...

After our great walk through the glow-worm tunnel last night we had to head to the Interislander ferry ready for our return to the north Island. The drive wasn't far and really picturesque around the north coast.We had to hang around all day for the ferry at 9.00 pm so we spent a few hours in the afternoon planning our USA / Canada trip. Having cut it down to 6 nights in USA and 10 in Canada the plan is........ LA, 2 nights, Greyhound bus Las Vegas, 2 night...