NZ

we've arrived in our longest planned destination stop. have toured round a fair bit off the north island. stayed with some relatives in auckland who were ace - kept us well fed, clean and warm. have bought a tent and a car ('Neville' - a toyota camry) and we're having fun driving round NZ. been up to the bay of islands, the kai iwi lakes (met up with family's family and had a hangi feast camping by the lakes with lovely fragrant longdrop toilets!), the coromandel penisula (hotwater beach - dug a hole to bath in the hot water), hamilton (took a trip to the waitomo caves to go black water rafting), auckland of course and now rotorua. the smell in the air here is awful - stinks of rotten eggs the whole time! but can't complain as we had the best day white water rafting today and tomorrow we're off to Taupo -hopefully to skydive depending on the weather.