on the ferry on the way south cannot believe we are at this point already. wellington has been great and we are

Woke up, had breakfast and faffed about sorting out the van to return. We then drove to Petone where we saw the NZ made shop, nothing really took my fancy buy but it was a interesting poke around. We then spent some time on the beach, Alex and Andrew built a sandcastle. Lunch was in a café called Caffiend.Then drove to the campervan place and found it pretty quickly. I was surprised we were being given a lift to the hotel given that I had a voucher for a tra...

This morning we wee up fairy sensibly and managed to leave around 9:30 for the short walk to Lower Hutt, Waterloo station and caught the train to Wellington. It was a windy but hot day. The train journey was nice along the front of the harbour. The train was a little old and the conductor was miserable but very helpful. Also on the train were a group of blokes on the way to the Rugby 7s who were very friendly. We arrived in Wellington to be greeted by a larg...

Left the site after emptying all the tanks etc and had a McD for breakfast. Drove to Wellington and got in around 4pm. The Rimataku road is very high ! Lovely to see Andrew again.

Today we were going to go and do volcanoes in the national park but we decided the girls needed a day that was more for them, so we headed for the coast in the hope of finding suitable things for them. For us the wineries would have been an option but we felt not for the girls. We pretty much failed in this mission but we had a good explore of Napier, Art Deco twon. I am unconvinced this was in the end the right move but when we reached here we had no inclinat...