Day 174, 175 - Auckland & the NZ sum up, North Island - Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th April 2012 We drove into Auckland with the sun out and the city looking lovely! First up we headed to our campsite on the north shore to have a well needed shower and some breakfast before getting the bus into the city. Once in the city we wandered about the shops and the waterfront - Auckland seemed like a lovely city with a good mix of cool cafes, wicked little bars, normal...

Day 171, 172, 173 - Coromandel region, North Island - Wednesday 4th, Thursday 5th, Friday 6th April 2012 We woke up and were glad we'd survived the night without a tree collapsing on us or the van overturning - it was a really windy night! We'd stayed at a DOC site and once we were up and ready we discovered there was a nearby waterfall so decided to do the hour walk to have a look. Well after an hour we reached it and were a little disappointed - Soph said we...

Day 169, 170 - Raglan, North Island - Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd April 2012 Lazy, lazy, lazy explains our two days in Raglan. Raglan is a really laid back surfing town in NZ and so taking that into account we decided to be as laid back as we possibly could be - translated this means we did literally nothing! The two days merged into a mixture of us wandering around the town, drinking copious amounts of coffee, taking in the sunsets and reading up on countries fo...

Day 168 - White water rafting & sledging on Kaituna River, North Island - Sunday 1st April 2012 After a lovely, relaxing and cultural day / evening the day before, today was the complete opposite!! Our friends - Danny "small hands" Wells & Stacey "saggy" Hale - bought us as a wedding present all the way back in September for a day's activity in NZ. So today was the day, we were up and away in the camper at 8.15am and headed to "River rats", here is whe...

Day 167 - Rotorua & Te Po Maori cultural evening, North Island - Saturday 31st March 2012 We spent our morning lazing in the hot pools and after having scrambled eggs on toast by the boiling spring, 12pm came and it was time to check out. This campsite is by far the best we've been to and to think we wouldn't have even known it was there if someone hadn't put a star next to it in our camp guide map book! We spent an hour driving along route 5 until we rea...