by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 8, 2018 | Animals, Flora and Fauna, Food and drink, Landscapes, New Zealand, Scenery, Uncategorized
Haere Mai! Welcome to subtropical Northland, the birthplace of New Zealand and where ancient pohutukawa trees (more on these later) and giant Kauri trees merge with white sandy beaches and gorgeous hidden coves. Northland is the place where Maori and Europeans first... 
by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 6, 2018 | Food and drink, Landscapes, New Zealand, Scenery
Our road trip from the Bay of Plenty up the Coromandel. We met a couple in Pukehina who told us about ‘Beach Hop’, a 50s/60s nostalgia event taking place at various places on the Peninsula whilst we would be there, so exciting! We made a decision based on this to stop... 
by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 6, 2018 | Landscapes, New Zealand, Scenery
We’d had the Bay of Plenty on our must-visit list, because of the active marine volcano (Whaakari or White Island, named by Cook for its permanent shroud of mist and steam) that lies 50km offshore from the township of Whakatane. Ideally, we would’ve loved to have... 
by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 6, 2018 | New Zealand, Uncategorized
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. Do you recognise... 
by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 6, 2018 | Flora and Fauna, Landscapes, New Zealand, Scenery
Wanting to avoid the tourist crowds around the hub of the geothermal area, Rotorua, we headed instead to Lake Rotoiti, a small volcanic crater lake, as our base for exploration. The little boathouse we pitched up at was down a dusty track, through native bush and... 
by Tash, Jake, Lola and Albie | Apr 5, 2018 | Countries, Food and drink, Landscapes, New Zealand, Scenery
Cruising through Havelock North, just south of Napier in Hawke’s Bay, we got a really good feeling. Despite it being the middle of the day, with children in school and people at work, there was a great vibe and intimate feel to the township. We checked out the local...
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