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... is the best in the building!!! Balcony, lake view and ensuite bathroom! I share with an American couple (Zaine and Amanda) who are really nice and good fun to drink wine with... I also met an Irish girl called Kerry Mitchell... weird!!! She's also working in Taupo and is slightly crazy... is Taupo big enough for the two of us??? I started work at the pub too and its fine... I prefer doing the earlier shifts as its a bit clubby late on at the ...

... play area which was also heated. Some of the pools temperature were 41 degrees and went down to 25. This was truly relaxing and after we had a bite to eat we decided to go for a drive in search of some snow cause it didn't look too far away after 1 1/2 hours driving we decided we weren't going to find any so headed home for some dinner and bed for an early night.

... the plains and Lake Taupo on the other side. I made it to the Ketetahi hut half way down the other side. Here I was intending to continue down to the ccar park and try and blag a lift with the buses back to Whakapapa village. As it was such a great day I decided to walk back over the crossing. One thing about this walk is that everybody walks in the same direction to get picked up on the other ...

... just can't go. I know, it's a major bummer man, but I mean, you'd be tresspassing, so you just can't go." The lady laughed pretty hard when I told her I'd just done it...and walked the entire way.... So Kristen and I cleaned up and finally did laundry for the first time since arriving.... DISASTER. Those of you who know me well know what's coming next.... Ipod shuffles are tiny. Really really tiny. And I left mine in the pocket of my ...

... removed the pillow case while you were asleep. It aint the best! It was also extremely hot in Taupo, we're talking close to 30 degrees celsius, and we had no air-con or even a fan so we kind of just melted into couch we had in the cabin. Aside from these fairly minor complaints it was all good at the camp site and we were there for 2 nights. Our first afternoon in Taupo was just spent having a quick wander about the shops, re-familiarising ourselves with ...

... have, although they are really just a big hot plate heated by a gas bottle - none of that inconvenient smoke! Steven, now in his new phase, went down to sleep well and Yvonne and D talked pubs and Wetherspoons reminiscences and Yvonne had too much vodka! (D's drink misdemeanour has not been described - but it happened in Sydney!) The next day, despite Yvonne feeling under the weather, we visited the Huka Falls, a local dam and the rapids it ...

... geothermal feature yet - since it looked perfectly normal but turned out to be hotter than a hot bath. The stream itself was, in fact, too hot to bathe in but where it met the main river the dilution made it quite comfortable. Even so, it was very odd to have the top of your body in a thin layer of warm/hot water and the bottom in icy-cold river water. We relaxed for a while in the sun, then climbed back up the hill, had an improvised shower next to the van using our tap ...

... what we saw, for me New Zealand = Ireland + Alps + a unique special vibe. In other words, it is everywhere breathtaking and you just want to stop the car every 200m to take a photo of another sublime scenery. We wanted to do the Tongariro Alpine crossing, but it was closed so we went for a guided trek: the ascent of Ruapehu, the highest mountain of the North Island (2754m ...

... pair of glasses. Amy came in with another by stander to extract each ones hand from the others hair. They were scratched with a little blood, black eyes and less a few hundred strands of hair. I gave a police report. Apparently, the fight was over what else....a man.

... punch thrown out of pure frustration.

Eventually in the 10th round Mayweather hit him with a sweet left hook, which threw Ricky into the corner of the ring, and you knew this was it. Hatton got up looking like me at the end of the first night of my Estonian stag party! He was a mess, and sure ...