Well we had a relatively un-eventful last few days in New Zealand. We had quite a bit of travel to do to get back to Auckland and the weather was not co-operating with us so we don't have too many exciting adventures to report. It rained pretty much non stop for 2 days. We took the ferry back to the North Island and spent the night in Welligton where we had a hearty meal at a place called "Burger Fuel". They actually had a great selection of vegetarian and vegan burgers made from chick peas and seeds! I was very impressed and mine actually tasted great! It had this mango chutney on it that was fantastic! Then we drove to Whanagui and stayed at this really great hostel in a nice old building that used to be a hospital. We had a room with a huge bay window overlooking the river so we could read our books and watch the water level in the river steadily rising from the incessant rain! The next day we drove to the Waitmo caves. They are famous for glow worms and we decided to splurge on a tour and we figured it wouldn't matter if it was raining 'cause we'll be in the caves, right? Wrong! They were closed due to flooding....oh well....we can always come back, right Christian? :>) We spent the next night at a place called Raglan on the ocean and enjoyed some wine and a nice pizza and celebrated our last real night in NZ.
We even scored the last 2 days of our rental car for free because we had to take it in one morning for this certification thing that took like an hour so that made us pretty happy !
And we are off to Australia next....we'll keep you posted....
Hanna and Dan xoxo
More beautiful scenery on the ferry ride back to the North Island:
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