• Where is the mountain?

    June 20 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C

    Well, what a difference 12hours can make. The weather forecast last night predicted cloud ☁️ instead of beautiful sunshine 🌞. What they didn't tell us was that the cloud would be at ground level! I have included a pic taken of Mt Te Aroha from the same location and angle as yesterday's one. Can you see it 👀?
    The tour guide decided that it would be a great idea to have bacon and eggs for breakfast. Guess who got to stand outside in the freezing 🥶 temperatures and who had the comfortable task of frying the eggs in the comfort of the warm and toasty van.
    We moved on the Paeroa after this and the tour guide wanted to cycle 🚲 to Thames in the fog. Good luck I would say. It was still only 6degs when I left her to begin her adventure. Good thing sightseeing was not high on her agenda because everywhere was white with the fog 🤣. I met up with her about 30mins into the journey to make sure all was okay. She told me it was great and that she was enjoying herself. So was I, by keeping warm and dry 😊.
    Eventually she made it to our freedom camping site which is a gravel carpark at a sports ground around lunchtime. She had made very good time, and just to make the destination even more appealing, I ordered some sunshine 🌞. Thames was not so badly afflicted with the fog as the earlier places.
    After lunch it was a walk into town for some exercise and to make a purchase at Noel Lemmings. TVNZ have changed their broadcast set up which has stuffed up the TV in the van. I needed to purchase a doofer to make my dumb TV into a smart TV. However, I am too dumb to get the setup right! I should ask the travel guide I guess because she has an answer for most things 🤔.
    It's been another great day and we really have been blessed with the weather. Tomorrow is forecasted rain so plan on doing the laundry. In case you are wondering, we won't hang it out to dry 🤣.
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