Well we have 4 days to go and there has been a lot of packing today. We are busy researching Motorhomes to buy in Vancouver and studying the travel guides to decide where we will travel first - is it skiiing or head south for warmer weather?? We have booked a Hotel and Rental car for the first week, which should allow us time to buy our home and...

Am 25. Januar simmer dä Ostküschte entlang uf Napier gfahre. Isch es herzigs Dörfli, welches nacheme Erdbebe im Jahr 1931 s'Zentrum (bekannt als "Art Deco") wie damals wieder nachbaut händ. Am Abig sind mir guet go Ässe im Lone Star, wo sich de Roger en Jonny Cash Special gönnt hät.

Napier is beautiful wine country. It is quite the destination place & if traveling thru the North Island a must see. A lovely city on the ocean with wonderful beaches. The feel is very much like South Beach in Fla. with its art deco buildings, its version of Lincoln Rd., lots of stores & wonderful archicture to view. We're staying in a 1...

Thursday, July 19, 2007 Had a chance to see Huka Falls with a fellow traveller, Angelica before heading out to Napier. The water was so green and so powerful. Absolutely mesmerizing! We even saw a jetboat coming in close to the falls as they do with the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls, except this is a very small, yet powerful jetboat with muc...

Hello guys, now you have to bear with me with these next couple of blog entries because I'm on a machine that is running off 56k internet (oh my god.... no broadband I hear you cry!!!?!??!) So, anyway... Napier. We arrived there as the last stop of our trip around the East Cape. It is the self proclaimed Art Deco capital of the world and it is e...

I was a little sad to leave Wellington as I was sort of settled but that wasn't necessarily a good thing. Ben & Rach dropped us off at the bus and we made our way up to Napier, Art Deco city and home to several disabled penguins who we'd arranged to go and cuddle the next day. It was good to be on the road again until we went to bed that night a...

Hello from Sunny Napier Alright, so this is supposed to be the art-deco capital of the world because there was a huge earthquake here in the 30's and it all got rebuilt then so everything is in this cheesy 30's "chicago" (the movie/musical) style and its all in pastel colours. i was going to take a tour of the city then i realized it was $12 for...

Jess' Take: Hello again, Croft and I are at this great Internet cafe so I am feeling energetic after putting the finishing touches on my Welly entry and thought I would start on the Napier entry at the same time. After Wellington, Croft and I decided to head to Napier to take a look see. In Napier, we saw a lot of Art Deco architecture, which I ...

20.25 - Most of today has been spent travelling on the bus. We were off by 10.00 this morning, half an hour later than planned but this has become such a regular occurrence I am used to it now. We had a quick stop at the top of a hill just outside Gisborne then we dropped this guy off who I had met about a month ago in ACB. It's a small world ai...