Treetops Lodge Rotorua

... This one had a nice tomato sauce with spices and capers - HUGE fatty mussels ended up being the highlight and the Sicilian pizza was a nice addition. 
The wind found on the drive up followed along and it sounds as through a huge rainstorm is outside though it's really just the wind doing it's best to push some trees over.  Tomorrow will take us either Southwest to Waiatomo gloworm caves or South back to the thermal valley :)  

... is done well, no matter how cheap it is. I have not eaten one bad chip, potato wedge, burger or piece of bacon since I have been here. May not sound a lot to ask if you're eating out, but so many places in the UK, especially the cheaper places, so often fail to deliver on these things - soggy or undercooked junk food is clearly not tolerated in New Zealand!! The challenge for us, eating down at that end of the scale, is going to be controlling our waistlines, us both being ...

... of 80s rock song follow by pop music and the crowd came to live as some people came out dancing. Their song is really beautiful and the last song was dedicated to world peace and the New Zealand soldiers who fought and passed bravely in the 2 World war. The night ended with a Haka, the war dance made famous by the New Zealand All Blacks Ruby Team. The night concluded with me breaking into the hostel because the key given for ...

... of singing though. After that we walked through the town park and saw all the boiling lakes and pools of mud, we didn't have a car or the money to go and see all the touristy geysers and stuff but saw all we wanted to see. On the way home we picked up two giant t-bone steaks reduced to $5 (less than 2 quidfor both) and BBQ'd them while all the other backpackers ate their pasta with tomato ketchup on.

We woke up early for a Sunday as we had a full day planned. First though a buffet breakfast despite the fact we were still full from dinner the night before.

We decided before the trip that we wanted to explore Rotorua and Wai-o-Tapu. We could have gone on a tour organised by Princess Cruises but Barb and I are adventurers and like doing our own thing and so we organised to hire an economy car before we left which would be at the ...

... each sheep was sheared, I had to give the sheeps a mouth syringe that contained an anti fly medicatiion so that the flys do not nest in the sheeps wool during the summer. After John finished shearing all of the sheep, he decided that two of the sheep would need to be put down because they had gotten too old and had started to loose their teeth and can no longer eat. We marked them so that Paul could kill them when he returned from the store and let all of ...

... He didn't move much though - I think he was wary of my reputation and didn't want to incur my wrath if he was pesky. During dinner (the meat from the Hangi) we got talking to some German girls. They were very sweet and took their own photo of me to take home too.

... tickets, even if everything else
is opposite-themed here. He gets pulled over for doing 120km in a 100km
zone. The wierd part was that the policeman wanted to know what he did
for a living to write into the ticket. So we run into the tourist
office and ask where Waiotapu is, to go see the geyser erupt in exactly
30 min ...

... die mij kan ophalen en weer terug brengt. Bij aankomst begint het heel hard te regenen. Ik heb een paraplu bij me dus laar me niet afschrikken. Het park is best klein en nu nog erg rustig. Ik loop een rondje en loop langs een zijstuk dat je langs de hoogste warm waterval van Nieuw Zeeland brengt en naar een groter gedeelte met nog meer en grotere poelen. Samen met Waiotapu zijn dit mijn favoriete parken. Vroeg op de middag heb ik me weer terug laten brengen naar de ...