Today was a complete relax day. We had a lie in until about 11am and had breakfast. Nick went to Tauranga to visit his soon to be brother in law. Myself, Ben, James and Clare went to the beach. Clare spent the whole time sunbathing as me Ben and James went in the sea on body boards acting like little kids! Riding waves and joking about. We went back to the beach house as the sun is really strong here in New Zealand. Played a game of Ludo which was surprisingl...

After a long lie in we got all our stuff together and ready to head down to the beach house. Pip has kindly lent us her car, so me and Nick will be driving it as Ben had his license stolen in Thailand. Once ready we headed into Auckland to pick up James and Clare. Then stated our road trip! Pretty excited! It took us about 2 hours to get to the beach house and we arrived mid afternoon. We settled in and chose our rooms. Took a look at the stunning beach and had...