A Place in the Sun Russell
57 Wellington Street Russell, Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand
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A day on a hidden beach in Russel.
Today we took the local ferry from the dock of Paihia to a beautiful half-Island called Russel. There was a long beach full of small, pretty, round stones, so we all sat down on the beach studying these stones closely.They were so perfect and different from the ones we seen at home. Since it was so nice and warm, we decided to eat our very tasty New Zealand produced salad and fruit ...
Delfiner og bådtur
... pænt skuffede hjem en time efter (kl. 22), da festen allerede var død på det tidspunkt. De eneste der var tilbage i byen folk der alle kendte hinanden, og vist også havde fået en enkelt (eller 80) for meget. Og miss Russell??? Ja, hende mente de nu ikke at have set noget til!
På vejen hjem fra Russell standsede vi kort i Whangarei for at hike ud til NZs mest fotograferede vandfald...! Og ja - vi bidrog da gerne til denne flotte statistik, så et par billeder blev det da til :-)
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More Dolphins and bad things!
... happy to find some proper Cadburys chocolate in the English section of a supermarket..............this promptly melted the day after, but still tasted amazing.
2. Having to spend at least 45 minutes every morning packing up the van and being able to get going, only to have to unpack it all again when we get somewhere to go to bed.
3. Lack of showers - Glastonbury has been good practice for ...
On the beach
... and watched a guy play 'stick' with his labrador. Expect the stick wasn't a stick but a massive log of driftwood. When the guy tossed it like a caber into the sea, the dog swam after it again and again. It was fun to watch. It was a lovely warm evening, but I soon learnt about the mosquitos. Doors and windows shut, I spent most of the evening trying to track one down that was in the campervan, I could hear him, but couldn't see him. He'd better not get me in the ...
Lange schoene Tage in Russell
... Meer, bei starkem Seegang, wurde es Lara zwischenzeitlich mal ein bisschen mau. Auf unserem kleinen Zwischenstopp auf einer schoenen Insel legte sich dies schnell wieder. Zum Abschluss des tollen Tages gingen wir als Ausnahme mal essen. Wir goennten uns eine frisch zubereitete Holzofenpizza mit Meeresfruechten und einen leckeren Salat.
Trotz Dezember und dem immer naeher rueckenden Weihnachten kommt hier die ...


