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This morning we treated ourselves to a Maori style spa day at Ngawha springs! For just $5 each (£2.80 each) it is very relaxing, if you can ignore the stench of rotten eggs from the Sulphur. We spent a few hours just lazing in the warmth with sun shining down on us, it was bliss (you get use to the smell).They are one of only two in the world that naturally rise to the surface without any assistance. They ranged in heat from hot from 35C to 44C - we only dipped into that one it was VERY hot! Then you go into the freezing cold ones. Our skin is now nice and soft.
Yesterday we visited 90 mile beach, Spirit Bay and Cape Reinga (the furthest point North of NZ). We found some cool crab fossils on 90 mile beach, and considered walking the whole lot, but that was as far as we got.. considering it! Spirits bay was astonishing, with white sands and then wild horses, magical! We could have stayed the night there but we ended up moving on.
Spirits Bay
Spirits Bay Wild Horses
Spirits Bay - Stacey enjoying the view
Cape Reinga
Cape Reinga
Only 9735 miles away!
At Cape Reinga you can see the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean collide together and create a mini whirlpool. Didn't get any good pictures of this unfortunately!
The night before that we stayed at a lovely camp site and got take away fish and chips (was tasty but not the best we’ve had yet!). They had a friendly pig, lots of chickens, ducks and some rabbits.
Greece was full of lovely locals, great coffee and very diverse weather! We enjoyed glorious sunshine over Christmas and New Year, and then snowy cold during February. We didn’t expect it to get so cold in Greece, but it did make for some great pics! We got to spend our Christmas and New Year pet sitting 3 lovely cats in Palairos on the Western coast. We stayed for 3 weeks, and really felt like we became one of the ‘locals’, enjoying wine on the square in the afternoon sun. Especially as during this time of the year most of the town is shut apart from a few bars, and of course the Gyros place. For those of you who don’t know what Gyros is, it is Greece’s ‘kebab’, with either chicken or pork, Tzatziki sauce, chips and salad. It is delicious, and very cheap! The cute cats we got to pet sit over Xmas Traditional Gyros The town of Palairos Palairos square Boxing Day swim, it was still about 20C Getting friendly with the locals! The perfect afternoon We visited a couple of local towns
A little blog post on our time in Istanbul, especially written for our friends Brett and Alan. The buzzing city of Turkey, with mosques and bazaars, and a lot of culture and history. We spent 24 hours in this amazing city. We tried our best to figure out the tram situation but from what we could work out, you either needed a tram card or small notes (10 and 5 Lyra and exact change). It is cheap though, at just under 10 Lyra for one way. It’s a shame we didn’t manage to figure it out, or should i say, had the time to figure it out, as it would have been nice to venture to the other parts on the other side of the bridges. We visited the Blue mosque but sadly it was closed for repairs for a couple of months. But we enjoyed it nonetheless from the outside. Hearing the call to prayer between the Blue mosque and the Ayasofya mosque opposite was really special, sounding as though they are singing to each other. We did head back to the Blue mosque in the evening when it was dark to see i
Albania ended up being mostly a transit country for us. We did in total spend about 2 weeks there; 5 days making our way from our petsit in Montenegro to one in Greece for Christmas and then 6 days on the way back up to Montenegro to collect some bits that our new friends had brought back from England for us - essentials like ale, gravy granules and gas bottles! We also then wanted to go to Kosovo through Albania, but sadly when we got to the border at Kosovo they needed us to take out border insurance for our van Luna, which was going to cost €138, which was a a lot of money considering we were only going to be there for a few days. So we turned back around and went back through border control, and then got the most thorough search we’ve ever had through border control, by the Albanian police intent on finding drugs! I tried explaining to them we’d only been in Kosovo for 5 minutes, but I don’t think they quite understood! This was the closes we got to North Macedonia, just across the
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