Chronologically

It was a long vacation with a lot of photo's so I will try and blog our activities in order. But since your reading it on a blog, you'll probably read the last entry first, then scroll down and read this last anyhow.

After landing in Auckland at 6 am we were picked up by the camper rental company and taken to the depot to pick up our home for the next three weeks. We then drove to Taupo which is on a huge lake in the center of the North island. A fun fact someone told us about the lake is that it's the same size as the country of Singapore, which has a population of about 4 million, which is also the population of all of New Zealand. A lot of things there remind me of Europe. Great cafes, clean streets, little cars etc. We did some hikes to water falls, a trip to some erupting geysers, a dip in a hot spring, and a sightseeing flight over some volcanoe's. The whole area is thermal and you see steam coming out of the ground in the strangest places. The water Marianne is standing in was as hot as the hottest jaccuzi . It took some getting used to.