When we got to Wellington it was raining again.We had a look around the city and went to the museum to see the infamous Britten motorbike, designed and built by New Zealander John Britten.From Wellington we headed up the east coast to Greytown where we stayed on a local council campsite and met an American who gave us his email address and invited us to stay with him if we ever go back to San Francisco, and forgot to mention it was still raining, and spent the night in the car as it was too wet to put the tent up.

We left Greytown (in the rain) and headed towards Masterton, by which time the rain had eventually stopped :-)We continued north along the coast and came to what the sign stated was the longest place name in the world.The name is after a Maori chief, but there are no houses or buildings there just a hill, the name is TaumatawhakangihangakoauauotamateturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahuI'll let you try to pronounce it.

We continued north and spent Friday and Saturday nights in a campsite right on the beach just outside Hastings.On the Saturday we walked along the beach at low tide to what New Zealand claim to be the largest breeding colony of gannets in the world, but Dai says that the Uk also claim to have the largest colony also, will have to Google that next time I have Internet.After getting back from the walk to the gannet colony we just got back to the campsite when there was a big commotion in the sea and when we looked some larger fish had rounded up a shoal of small fish and were attacking them from below, making the fish all rise and splash on the top of the sea where the birds were then picking them off, and the gannets were diving into the middle of the fish to get them, it was like something on a David Attenborough program.

On Sunday we visited Napier and saw all the art deco buildings that were built in the 1930's after a massive earthquake and subsequent fire.And almost forgot, Dai has now broken his 6th pair of sunglasses.

We continued to travel up the east coast travelling along highway 38 which was a 105km gravel road with loads of twisty bends which I thought was good fun but Dai wasn't quite so keen, he kept going on about feeling sick.We stopped a night at a campsite in the middle of a forest, miles from anywhere, the sky was really clear and you could see thousands of stars in the sky, they formed a sort of line right across the sky.

We also went for a dip in a natural sulphur hot pool just outside Rotarua, this was strange, it was a waterfall feeding a small pool which you would expect to be cold but when you get in its really warm and if you dig your feet into the gravel bottom they get really hot.It was like a big natural hot tub but 100 times stronger due to the waterfall and a lot smellier due to the sulphur.

Travelled for a few more days and got to my brothers on Thursday 1st March.Really glad to get back to sleeping in a bed after 2 months in the tent.Will stay here now until we fly on to our next destination which was going to be Australia but we have now changed this and are going to go to Bali instead for 2 weeks, from there we will fly to Bangkok, where we will have 10 weeks to see Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and travel overland through Southern Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore where we fly home from arriving back in the UK on 15th June.

Everyone says that when we get to Bali and Asia is when the adventure will truly begin so will next update when I arrive in Bali.