Didn't realise NZ had all this interesting stuff - just thought it was full of sheep, farmers and haka-dancing rugga players!
The Huka Falls look spectacular and Lake Taupo looks huge.
The Unpronounceable Names National Park looks good also. I presume Mt Ngauruhoe is a volcano - must have been an exciting climb. How long did it take? You are obviously both keeping fit and well: it must be the Backpacker Diet!
Speaking of food, the photo of you cooking in a tent is presumably a side extension to the van as it seems to be too large to be the interior of the vehicle.
Liked the Abel Tasman Nat. Park pics also. Looks like you enjoyed the Wine Gulping (sorry Tasting) at the Manic Vineyard, judging from Kev's expression in one of the pics!
Finally (to finish my rambling observations), again I like your sunsets with their different colours. They seem so different to good ole England. Adele Island is obviously a place of some beauty.
Keep well.
I bet you're looking forward to Fiji.
(PS If you get this message on the board twice it's 'cos I have screwed up - not to worry! It's saying my email address is not valid when it plainly is. Perhaps the Board as well as not being able to tell the time is dyslexic as well. Perhaps we should tell the Management to sort out the website. On the other hand it could just be me...!)
Jay
Hey you Chica and Chico...how you doing?
Looks/Sounds like your loving it so far? So hows it going with Liverpool and Luton next season?
Gill
All the messages say 16.34 here,which is not the time as I type.
Janet
On my version, they are all sent at 11.03.
Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon?
Janet
Anyone else experiecning this phenomenon
Philip
Just noticed that all entries on this message board appear to have been posted at 08:55 including, I expect, this one - posted at 09:01. Wonder why the developers didn't spot that.
Janet
A couple of other lads and I are looking into getting a season ticket - - -
Well, I'm not, you understand - wouldn't cramp Nick's style. I'm just representing the grammar police who seem to have gone quiet of late
Mum
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Nick
Hull City are now a Premiership club!!!!! Beat Bristol City 1-0. Me and a couple of other lads are looking into getting a season ticket for next year.
In other news, United won the Chsmpions league or something. Insignificant in comparison!
xxx
John
Your description of the Maori feast at Tamaki Village and other references to meals made me feel hungry. I have got some bug from the office and the quack has told me to abstain from food for 24 hours - am ravenous. Only four hours to go now!
NZ looks fun. The campervan looks a useful piece of kit: roomy and well laid out, although a bit different to your posh, yachty Bridgewater Bay apartments!
The Waitomo Caves looked beautiful, though the same can't be said for the Rotorua springs. Reminded me of the holes dug by the Water Company in the road or a sewage farm!
I was impressed by the Bay of Islands and by Cape Brett with its Hole in the Rock. Thought the quality of the blues in these photos was remarkable.
Commenting generally on you pics, I think they are excellent - your Hong Kong camera is obviously doing the biz. Thought the pink sunset in Auckland was one of your best shots.
The WW Rafting looked a bit adrenelin-inducing. You seemed to get the worst of it at the front, Kev, being totally submerged at one point!
Missing you.
Philip
Puts the log flume at Alton Towers in its place, doesn't it?
Nicole
Hello you 2,
Have you completely and utterly fallen in love with New Zealand or not- if not leave now, right now, don't look back and don't tell anyone. NZ does have a reputation of beautiful scenary but having never been there i guess your word will have to do. Don't make sheep jokes...but make some noise just as you get on the plane to America...Nic.
Ali
Greetings from Oz. Feels funny following in your footsteps - if only for a tiny bit. Liking Brisbane so far, an odd mixture of old and very new and shiny, but the best thing is the beautiful blue sky every day.
Anyway, just wanted to say - Up the Reds!! I too have to get up at 4am tomorrow to catch it - and then have to face going to work for 9. Let's hope it's with elation. Love xxx
Philip
I'm not surprised your van was cheap if it's got "Jucy cruza" painted all over it. They should pay you. By the way, isn't everything supposed to be upside-down in New Zealand, not sideways like it is in most of your photos? Unbelievably pretty though, isn't it? Drive carefully now.
