Hedgeley Cottages
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What a place to live
My aim in this post is to try to give you a sense of how awesome New Zealand is! I think for most of you it is quite evident due to the brevity of my last post and the absence of any real updates; so here goes.
I spent 2 nights in Rotarua and managed to cram in some good activities. I arrived at midday found the YHA, I may add at this point that the YHA hostels are completely different to anything i have stayed in on my whole trip. They ...
Week 3
... to where we are going most of the time as I am too busy looking at the views... But the driving is pretty similar to at home, with a few different rules and traffic light signals. Will probably take me a bit longer than it did Joff to get the hang of it all, as he seems to take to driving abroad like a duck to water, but hopefully I will be whizzing around Auckland like a pro in the near future.
On Friday we made to 417km trip to visit Ade and ...
It's rainy up North
... next to a beach. This seemed to be quite a popular spot with freedom campers (and the local weirdo) so we were lucky to get in early and a get a good spot. Got chatting to the swedish/english couple in the van next to us and they gave us some great tips for the North Island and we gave them ours from the South. After spending a couple of hours with all our maps and leaflets planning our tour round the North Island, we ate with them by ...
Wine influenced purchases
... 8220;You see, daddy got caught up in the spirit of the day, and
bought eight bottles of wine spending $215, Amy, so that’s why you can’t have
any new shoes, and the fridge is empty.”
Oops. The fact I bought my girls some chocolate as well
didn’t really appease the finances.
So, naturally, the alpha males sodded (is that even a word?)
off to eat tea ...
Location
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking