Maison Bearnaise Bed & Breakfast Napier
25 France Road Napier, North Island, 4110, New Zealand
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Campervan Day 7– 26 years together
Yep today is our anniversary of when we met – 26 years ago. Where have all the years gone? It's quite scary as it seems to have flown by, but at the same time we’ve experienced a hell of a lot.
So we decided to visit Wai-O-Tapu which is a large geothermal area where a geyser goes off at 10.15am everyday – more on that later. It’s a fair way out of Rotorua on the way to Napier which is why we had to up and ...
Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men...
We left Napier with a simple plan in mind. Get to Upper Hutt just north of Wellington, stay there for the night and then head into Wellington the day before the ferry to enjoy some of the sights Wellington has to offer. It looks like a nice place. Kate is always a bit worried for me that I don't enjoy the long driving days, and if I was anywhere else in the world- maybe they'd get a little tiring. Thankfully, we're in New Zealand and the driving is a ...
New Zealand: The Land of the long white sneeze
... Well, a little but I wasn’t sure…where are you from?” I ask.
“Surrey” is the not unexpected reply.
“Where abouts I ask?”
“Reigate” she replies.
“I know Reigate” I continue, “We’re from Woking, and we used to live in Weybridge” I say (did you see what I did there, how clever was that?).
”Oh”, says Caroline, I have an ...
I'd make a good gypsy wife
We managed to find our way to the Spaceships HQ in Auckland to pick up our home for the next 2 months, a 2 berth people carrier car with a mattress in the back, which lies on top of two big wooden boxes – one for kitchen stuff and food, the other for our bags. The car is called a Spaceship and each car has a different name – some of the names were really cool like Cosmo, but we ended up with…..Alien. Alien!!! Well we've now changed it to Alan, or ...
On your marks, set...wait!
School has finished, the lawns are done, the clothes are washed and the U.S. cash sits crisply in my wallet, waiting to be handed out lavishly in generous tips. All we await now is our flights. Today we drop the dogs at the kennels then head for Napier airport for our one hour flight to Auckland. We wait in Auckland for a little over three hours, time that might perhaps ...

