Ok, I know i've started the last couple of days by moaning about how cold it is - but we heard a guy on the radio say that it was 0° last night - perhaps i'll let Nikki sleep inside the van tonight!
When we woke up this morning Nikki declared that she had run out of clean underwear and so we had to do some laundry (I later counted that she had brought 5 pairs of knickers on this trip - does that sound like enough for a year?). We washed and tried to dry the clothes on our site, but they was still wet and we had to leave - so we drove to the centre of Tauranga, where we found a launderette and I sat with the dryer whilst Nikki went food shopping.
The washing was still slightly wet, but we decided to leave anyway and went shopping. Nikki bought herself some jogging bottoms, which she says she's going to wear in bed tonight.
We would have liked to spent longer in Tauranga but had to move on, (so many places - so little time), so we jumped into the van and drove out to Mount Maunganui, which is by far the most beautiful place we have seen on this trip - it is stunning. The weather today was pretty good (I had my three-quarter length trousers on) and this just made it all the more spectacular. I'd imagine that during the summer months this place would be heaving, but it was lovely that we practically had the place to ourselves.
We started by buying a bag of chips from a takeaway (which were nowhere near as good as chips at home) and siting in a bay next to the beach and eating chip-butties in the van. When we'd finished we drove to the foot of the mountain and trekked over halfway up. We would have gone further had it not been for the fact that... Nikki couldn't be bothered. The views of the ocean and city from where we were standing were stunning. The beaches were golden sand and the waters crystal blue.
It was tough to leave Mount Maunganui, but we knew that, with so many other places to see, we had to move on. So, we got in the van and headed East along the coast to Whakatane. The drive was nice because the sun was setting behind us and the sky was all pinks, reds, oranges and yellows.
Just outside Whakatane, in a place called Ohope, we found a campsite and set up for the night.
If it's gonna be 0° again tonight, Nikki had better share the covers!
4 comments:
Wondering what the price of diesel/petrol is over there? All this driving must be costing a bomb? Think of all the food you could buy if you stayed in one place!
Hello readers,
Petrol is $1.02 per litre and we fill the tank up for about $50 every other day ish, plus we have to pay a tax for every 100km ($3) which we pay when we return the van. We have done over 2000km already!!!
Miss you all.
Love Nikki. x x x
how about you come home then the petrol over there would be even cheaper!! and you could buy your own supermarket!!!
If nikki only brought 5 pairs of knickers and when you washed them they wouldn't dry....does that mean that she went knicker-less ......eeeeew lol
and Ben your english is bloody crap!
all this time in other countries is doing you no good at all!!!
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