After a one day recovery from Rhythm & Vines we were off on our travels again. This time to Taupo, our usual spot for meeting up with Tom & Elin (from Poole). It seemed that the whole population of New Zealand had decided to go to Taupo for the first weekend of 2015, so we ended up in a 4 bed dorm on a holiday park. It had potential but power sockets had obviously been an oversight, as we had none, and unfortunately the fan was not in working order. Aft...

Another weekend away took us to Taupo, one of the main centres of adventure in New Zealand. We stayed in a small, very cold, riverside bach with Tom & Elin, some friends from back in Poole who are also out here working. We trekked our way to the Huka falls, an impressive waterfall, not due to its height but because of the sheer volume of water that cascades through a narrowing in the river. From there we headed to a thermal park - craters of the moon, wh...