Hi everyone, you have got to be bored with dads blog entries, so now it is my turn to say something.

We are currently in Taupo, it is nice and has the biggest lake in the entire of NZ. Last night we free camped for the second time by a beautiful river flowing from the lake. We all find free camping great fun. The shower in Suzzie is just cool. Well actually it is hot because we can heat up the water !

While we were on the East Cape, basically in the middle of nowhere, not many places or people, we met someone from Dalton in Cumbria, and it turned out Gill went to the same school as dad. She is quite a bit younger than my dad but they still managed to talk for ages about their school days!!! Gill now lives in NZ, but one thing she longs for from the UK is soggy fish and chips, because here they pride themselves on cooking up really fresh stuff.

love Ellie