After my nightmare journey i got to New Zealand again and was able to spend a week with a family i knew from my church in Melbourne who had moved out to Auckland in July. I was looked after, had my own room, ate helthily, and had an amazing shower - all the things Sydney hostels cant provide.
It was a very relaxing and energizing time in amongst all the business and a welcome week before i head on my long journey to Peru. I enjoyed the warmth of the sun and the local beach and at the end of the week I was invited to go along with the family as we took their eldest daughter Lauren to University in Wellington a 9 hour drive to the other end of the North Island.
This was a good opportunity for me to be able to see some of the North Island and seeing so much of the South Island. We stopped and passed through some amazing and ridiculous little towns on the way, one where every shop had a giant model or sign made out of corrugated iron, 6ft bananas and teddy bears, 20-30 ft dogs and shepherds quite bizarre (but apparently as i read in the free in flight magazine a few days later it has transformed the towns dwindling economy- what this says about new zealanders i'm not sure).
It was a very relaxing and energizing time in amongst all the business and a welcome week before i head on my long journey to Peru. I enjoyed the warmth of the sun and the local beach and at the end of the week I was invited to go along with the family as we took their eldest daughter Lauren to University in Wellington a 9 hour drive to the other end of the North Island.
This was a good opportunity for me to be able to see some of the North Island and seeing so much of the South Island. We stopped and passed through some amazing and ridiculous little towns on the way, one where every shop had a giant model or sign made out of corrugated iron, 6ft bananas and teddy bears, 20-30 ft dogs and shepherds quite bizarre (but apparently as i read in the free in flight magazine a few days later it has transformed the towns dwindling economy- what this says about new zealanders i'm not sure).
We saw many 1, and in some cases 1/2 horse towns and as Emily the younger daughter was skiving school for the trip we gave her an in car education which i think will have helped develop her greatly as we amongst other things each developed ideas for genetically modified plants that would help transform the world my favourited including a venus fly trap bred with an oak tree which would be planted around london and would help eradicate the pigeon problem. Or the grass combined with the cocoa plant which would help us get chocolate flavour milk straight from the cow (quite what this says about madness in long car journeys i'm not sure either).
Anyway back to Wellington we enjoyed a day around the town, the national museum was having its 10th aniversary day and so we witnessed lots of things Mauri and of course Scottish related and the night finished with a big firework display over the harbour and along with walking up and down lots of hills, carrying lots of boxes, getting asked for ID for a 16 film and eating a crocodile pizza the weekend was pretty complete so we set off on our long journey back to Auckland or as it was for me that week HOME.
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