Hawkes Bay North Island

[Rich]: Having arrived at an awkward 4.30am in Auckland, and with a day to spare before we were picking up our home for the next 3 weeks (the campervan) we had plenty of opportunity to see the city, despite people telling us there isn't much to do there. We arrived 'downtown' and we were about to agree that there really is nothing going on in …

... we never even had to deal with them, how pleasant. It's how we'll forever refer to our time in KiwiLand. The North Island segment was an interesting contrast to the South Island Segment. While the South Island was all about Raw Beauty, Nature, ...

... shooting off onto a side road that would take us all the way to the opposite coast and into Hawkes Bay. The large university town of Palmerston North interrupted our progress briefly but only for a diesel top-up as we made good progress along roads that ...

... I go with Jess and Jane drives with Guy. It is a two hour moonlit drive through the Manawatu Gorge and the central North Island countryside, to Guy's parents' place, just outside Havelock North in the East coast of the Island. We are actually staying ...

... and sand!! Although apart from a couple of days and experiencing a 'southerly' in Wellington, I've had pretty much awesome weather in New Zealand for the last week, especially for winter. I've driven up in a 'rent a dent type car from Wellington via ...

... of ash and pumice (how do they know that?). Luckily there was no one about back then, as it devastated the whole of the North Island and coated it in 100m deep hot poisonous ash. There were no signs of the devastation as we drove into a tourist ...

... earthworms, smallest bats, heaviest insect (a weta) and has found the world's first carnivorous snail....yep! 9. Inhabitants of the New Zealand cities Of Longbern, agitated by the attacks of cats on defenceless birds, passed a law, which forbids a cat ...

[Random Update #3] Moved to flat next door. New Car + Hawkes Bay trip. Summer in Welly A bit about work. The Band April Trip - Tongaro, 42nd Traverse, Rotarua, The Big Coast Wairap. Wedding Preparations ...

... bus in from Seatoun with the normal mix of colourful locals that use buses across the globe and meandered into the heart of New Zealand - well commercially and politically! I jumped on a train and headed to meet Anna and family in Martinborough. I ...

Well the bus trip up to here was fantastic, the views were amazing, and I felt like I was finally in New Zealand. I got to Paihia on a Thursday night and by the Friday morning I had found myself a job working in a hostel for a couple of hours a day to ...

... until one cam strolling along in 1940. We also did some easy hikes in Tararua Forest Park. WELLINGTON The capital of New Zealand only has a population of about half a million, and is in a beautiful location with a magnificent harbor and ...