The alarm woke us up at 6am this morning, because Dale was giving us a lift into Auckland city centre. Today we were getting our campervan... yippee! We got ready, said goodbye to Susi and went to collect it. ROAD TRIP!
We decided that we would travel North from Auckland, to an area called the Bay of Islands. We didn't know if we were going to get there today, we just thought we'd see how we felt. Driving the van was ACE! We saw loads of them about, some from the same company - and their drivers waved at us as we went past.
New Zealand is beautiful! We were no more than 10 minutes outside of Auckland when the buildings disappeared and there was nothing but countryside. Everywhere you looked was green. One minute you'd be looking over miles and miles of fields, then suddenly you'd be driving up a huge hill-type-mountain, then you'd come out into the clear again - with a view that stretched for miles!
After about 2 hours of driving (at about 10am), we wanted to stop and get ourselves a drink and maybe some breakfast as we'd left Susi and Dale's in a hurry and had not any there. We found a tiny little café in the middle-of-nowhere and stopped. We both ordered a bacon and egg sarnie, and Nikki had a hot chocolate, with me asking for an apple juice. The food and drink was superb! My apple juice was freshly squeezed (with bits and everything), Nikki's hot chocolate was lush and the sarnies... well, they were the size of house bricks - brilliant!
We got back on the road and continued to travel North. After another couple of hours we drove through a city called Whangarei, and decided it would be a nice place to stay for the night. We found ourselves a campsite, booked ourselves in and went out exploring. To get to the Quayside Town Basin and harbour, we trekked through the Mair park / forest and got there in about 30 minutes. The park was very cool - we had to walk through all the trees, down shingle paths and then across a river (using a bridge of course).
The Quayside Town Basin has loads of shops and a harbour, so we spent a couple of hours looking round then went into the Fudge Factory where we bought ice-creams and fudge and sat eating them on the side of the river.
When we got back we went to a supermarket called Woolworth's and got some supplies for the trip. At the campsite, Nikki made us a chilli for tea, which we ate in the van before I set the bed up. We then got in, and watched The Break-Up on the laptop.
Out on the road - me, Nikki and Kiwi (our campervan)!
1 comment:
is that your van!! lol haha it looks funny i'm quite surprised that nikki has managed to stay in it for so long! her standards are lowing! better watch out Ben!!
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