The second biggest carneval parade after Rio. My God, all these people… Many of them dressed up in rainbow colours or hardly anything… Again lots to look and enjoy but too overwhelming for the boys. Anik crashed at about 8…
Day 211: Bondi Beach
The famous beach in Sydney. All those beautiful people walking along the promenade and beach in their bikinis and swimming shorts… Now and then a G-string.. Lots to look!Bill’s highlight: driving over Sydney Habour Bridge in Peter’s Lexus, which we…
Day 210: the big city
After a day of relaxing and exploring the beaches around Mosman, where we saw Kakadus and colourful Rainbow-parrots, we decided it’s time to hit the city. Anik was talking about the Opera House for days. We took the ferry. What…
Day 208: G’day Oz…
Are you ready for us? We arrived in the evening. It felt so good to be picked up at the airport. Finally there is someone waiting for us. Thank you Peter for having us. Felt home straight away. What a…
Day 207: Wellington
Yes, yesterday Auckland, today Wellington. And an eleven hours bus ride in between. We took the sleeper bus. The boys were excited and really enjoyed the ride. For Bill and me it was okay. As we all had really narrow…
Day 204 – 206: back in Devonport
We are back again in Auckland /Devonport with Louise and Steven. Our time in New Zealand is slowly running out. We have to return Betty, the car and repack our stuff which has miraculously increased. Still struggling with our flight.…
Day 203: a visit to the Hobbits
Hobbiton is our destination for today and maybe a pint in the Green Dragon with Sam, Merry and Pippin? What a place. Neat gardens, flowers everywhere, Hobbit clothes on lines to dry, smoke coming from some of the chimneys. Bees…
Day 201: tourist sights
Today we acted as real tourists and went to Cathedral Cove and the Hot Water Beach. It’s weird to see all these masses of people again. But the sights were worth it. Cathedral Cove For those who like pink sand……
Day 197 – 202: the Coromandel
With a nicely functioning rental car and in good spirits we left Louise and Steven for the Coromandel peninsula. Opoutere was recommended to us by the car owner, so why not try it out. And we loved it so much…
Day 195 – 197: We sold the car!
One person showed interest in our advert. This one person had a look at it and this one person bought it cash straight away. Weren’t we lucky! So it was worth leaving beautiful Pakiri. Luckily we had a lovely place…