Baystay B&B Paihia

... aber der bus fuhr, genau einer dieser momente an denen man gerne ganz alleine oder mit gleichgesinnten freunden reisen würde... nicht weiter tragisch, das nächste hochlicht wartete in form von sanddünen, welche wir auf bodybords runter rutschten. klein sh-air.E rannte als einziger viermal den berg hoch. zuerst eine testfahrt auf dem bauch, dann die zweite vollgas immernoch auf dem bauch mit halt vor dem fluss, die dritte fahrt dann auf den knien mit ...

... we'd see them. The three English girls: Sophie, Lauren and Emma also came out with us. We had many beers and at midnight it was officially mine and Alan's 8th anniversary. We decided to celebrate by buying a round of Jagers for everyone! Then we had a dance on the pool table to Journey. It was a very sophisticated evening and after stuffing our faces with burgers from a street side vendor we all headed home. It was 4am when we finally got to bed and less than three ours later our ...

... This drew massive tourism to the town and it got packed. We watched a video showing the dolphin playing with everyone. Unfortunately someone killed it, so not really a happy ending there. At the pub there was a free raffle going on and me and Dan managed to win a 2 for 1 bungee jump off the Auckland Harbour Bridge. So we'll probably try and sort it out today. Our next stop is Rotoura down south and along the way I believe we are stopping at the glow-worm caves. Should be good!

... your next destination it doesn't matter what the day or date is. It was nice to wake up in our lovely apartment with a view of sun coming up over the mountains (well more like high hills here actually) and drink our coffee and have a leisurely breakfast and know we have three whole days here before we have to be on the road again. We actually didn't get out of the apartment until 11.00am when we took the ferry over to ...

... waited. Then the fish started biting and I reeled in a few more too small to keep before catching the best one yet. I ran home down the beach dropping beer bottles and stuff as the fish were in the little coolbag, the last one still flapping around a bit as I hadn't whacked it properly. When I got back we BBQ'd our three snapper, less than an hour after they were caught, getting jealous looks as everyone else ate their pasta.

... Such good fun! Ate lunch on the bus and I think I may write a recipe book on making delicious sandwiches from leftovers out of the fridge - todays choice: boiled egg, sundried tomato pesto and beansprouts in pita - yum! Cape Reigna is the most scared of all places to the maori and strangely enough, as Barry sand a meke as we approached (song to the ancestors), the sun came out! He told us how the place had helped him get over the grief having lost his son ...

... weather was. A notice board outside the centre was headed "What's happening" but was left blank - so nothing then! Aardvarks!! We drove up to the headland to look at Goat Island and the reserve area. It was quite breezy and we spotted several pied shags nesting in the trees. Suddenly the bird swapped places with its partner and instantly two chicks sprang up in the nest, clamouring to be fed. The parent ...

... place where the treaty was signed. We also booked ourselves into a mauri concert where they give a demonstration of mauri song, dance and weapons. Of course they dont tell you when booking that there is some audience participation and who gets dragged up - Me!! Only one thing that could be worse and that would be Dale getting dragged up, he would of died! Anyway, I had to ...

... de l'autoroute, de plus il pleuvait donc pas grand chose a raconter. La premiere nuit dans la voiture n'etait pas la mieux qui soit non plus, nous etions pret d'une route avec un peu de circulation, avec la pluie en plus de ca c'etait un peu bruyant. Etait ce vraiment une bonne idee de monter un lit a l'arriere d'une voiture?

Le jour suivant nous avons continue notre ascencion en passant par la foret des Kauris. Un kauri est un arbre typique de Nouvelle Zelande. On ...

Cla has much fun like a gymnast on the trampoline, she relunctantly came down when we had to checkout accom for our arranged sand safari day trip. Our coach came punctually at 9am. We boarded Sand Safari coach for a day trip (9 ~ 5pm), following ...