A lazy Sunday
With so much travelling under our belt we were ready for a lazy Sunday. Another late ish start followed by breakfast out. This is an Antipodean habit that we could easily get into. We sat at Gisborne Wharf in the bright sunshine enjoying bacon and eggs. The only fly in the ointment was that Andy wanted his poached eggs well done so our breakfasts all arrived apart from Andy's which didn't arrive until he went looking for it about ten minutes later.
After our very pleasant breakfast we headed off to Warehouse to get Andy some workshops and then made our way to the joys of Pak n Save which reminded the two of us of Norman's several years ago. Card board boxes piled high above narrow alleys of goods.
This was clearly to be a day of  shopping as after the supermarket we drove to a farm to get some vegetables.
The afternoon was take up with the cricket and generally taking life easy before a dinner of steak cooked on the barbecue. All in all a relaxing day.
My views on the North island after our travels is that it it is very different to the South Island. The Bay of Islands was truly spectacular and one of our favourite places was the town of Russell. It had history in abundance, the town and the sea front was an easy walk from the campsite and the pub and the beer was good. Sitting on the seahore outside the pub watching two weddings processing down the esplanade to celebrate wil stay with us for a long time. We also liked the Coromandel peninsula and some of the beaches we have been on we have been fantastic.
The people have been very friendly and both us have been extremely well received everywhere we have been. There are still complete areas we haven't explored mainly because the expedition manager couldn't fit them in so I suppose that means we will have to come back again. Quelle domage.