Waitangi Day Today we were free to do what we wanted, so we had a big lie in! Then we went to the Te Papa museum, which is free, and has lots of exhibits based on the history of New Zealand. We also had a look aroud the harbour, where there was a rowing race happening. Wellington is a really nice walkable city, but as it was Waitangi Day (New Zealand Day) not much was open. In the evening the three of us went to an Italian restaurant - it was nice to be able to ...

'Kick back and relax" Getting up at 6.30am this morning was difficult after last night, but somehow we managed it! Our tour manager kept telling us to 'kick back and relax', which wasn't helpful! We spent most of the day travelling to Wellington, driving past Lake Taupo and through a place called Bull Town, where all the signs read something-a - bull (so Subway had a sign that said submerge - a - bull!). We stopped off at Flat Hills, and then drove up Mount...