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...

With one cheap night and one completely free night on the DOC sites we were heading to Havelock today to a campsite recommended to us by someone who stayed there a couple of weeks ago. Before we set off there we stopped off in Nelson to use the internet at the library, as we desperately needed to plan the USA stage of our trip. After three hours in the library we headed to the beach to have some lunch and found that there was a free concert on. There were loads ...

Happy birthday Mum. On the road again to get to the ferry, this time we were passing the a road we'd visited a couple of weeks ago in the awful rain, today the weather was stunning. We drove for a few hours then visited the "Pancake rocks" where we took some photos and had lunch.We drove to within 3 hours of the ferry and pitched for the night on a sandfly ridden DoC. We went on a little historic walk through an old railway station, bridge, and tunnel, ...

We slept pretty well in a bed for a change but it was now time to rough it for a couple of days at the DoC campsites.We had to be back in Picton at the far north-east of the island within three days so it was time to get some miles under our belt. It was 11 am by the time we were actually off but we had a great drive for about four hours stopping at the view point for cheese and crisp butties for lunch, good stuff.We managed to avoid numerous dangerous driving ma...