Look who we found on our travels! Eleanor joined us here and her lovely HelpX host (who shall remain nameless) kindly took us up the privately owned Mt Tarawera - an active volcano. We set off at dawn Czytaj więcej
Look who we found on our travels! Eleanor joined us here and her lovely HelpX host (who shall remain nameless) kindly took us up the privately owned Mt Tarawera - an active volcano. We set off at dawn Czytaj więcej
Te Urewera is unique. It's one of the few remaining truly remote areas in New Zealand and (like a lot of the East Cape) has retained its Maori culture - being owned now jointly by the local Tuhoe, Czytaj więcej
The East Cape competes with the Northland as one of the best parts of NZ. It's remote, much of it untouched and has a huge amount of history. We went snorkelling with sharks (unintentionally), canoed Czytaj więcej
We treated ourselves to a trip to NZ's only active marine volcano, White Island/Whakaari. What a fantastic experience to actually walk on an active volcano, watching where we put our feet so that we Czytaj więcej
Coromandel was where we weathered one of the biggest summer storms of the year. We unknowingly headed up to one of the most isolated, remote parts of Coromandel the day before a huge storm hit! Right Czytaj więcej
We decided to spend new year back up in Waipu - we didn't really have anything organised because we were waiting on the car and NZ is notoriously busy at New Year. Waipu caves has a free campsite and Czytaj więcej
We decided to spend a week in Raglan over Christmas at a really nice hostel. Christmas will always be a bit weird, away from home in a hot country, but we thought we'd just go for full weirdness and Czytaj więcej