Bye bye Australia...
hello New Zealand. hello newlook, pithy blog entries. Flew in yesterday morning. Swapped searing heat, water shortage and sunburn for brooding sky and a night of storms. Auckland is a funny place with barely anyone on the streets and itäs riddled with volcanoes - have been assured Mum that they are not active. Tomorrow we take possesion of our spaceship - a people carrier with mattress in the back masquerading as a camper van - and head to the Northlands to see the beaches and the most northerly point of the land, Cape Reinga. We've stocked up on CDs so I can sing us all the way there (oh Dan, you lucky thing) and have even got a few DVDs to stave off the movie cravings not satisfied by a trip to see ridiculous, misanthropic Babel this afternoon (although we did find a House of the Dead games machine in the multiplex and spent a happy five mins shooting zombies until we were both eaten). See you the on the other side....
posted by frangipan at 12:54 AM
4 Comments:
I think you should both try film cold turkey.
I'm so jealous, you're going to have such fun driving around. How long is this part of the trip? travelling around Australia in a van was the best time in my life so far!
Have fun, be safe - no volcano hopping...
xx
2:49 PM
loving the brevity.
lay off the movies and look at the stars - you can see them much better over there. once you're in camper van heaven there'll be no stopping you, i say.
me, the boy, a van, the red dust of the NT - best 5 days of my life. you lucky things having so much time...
watch out for lava.
r xxx
3:49 AM
oh, it was so much fun! Rowan and Jo, I get it completely now, roving around in a van. lots of starry nights and a moonrise at the very tip of New Zealand. we had five days in our orange spaceship and it was a bit of wrench when we gave her back. no accidents, incidents or breakdowns and no erupting volcanos. lots of love to you both fxxx
5:16 PM
Interesting to know.
2:32 PM
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