Minute of Rashness.....

We are acutely aware that the title of this blog is 'Roo and Emma's ADVENTURE' and that we have done nothing very adventurous since we arrived in New Zealand! We have spent the last two weeks drinking cups of tea and gorging ourselves on chocolate biscuits whilst doing the odd bit of plastering, much like real life builders do. Our biggest acheivement has been to put back on the weight we lost in South America over 3 months in 10 short days! Having warm water and a washing machine has become less exciting, and armed with full bellies and clean clothes we have decided it is time to get a bit adventurous! It has been lovely staying with Olive and Graeme and Stefan and Carman and we have been made to feel very at home here. Thank you to them all and hopefully we will be back to visit again before we leave for Fiji.

So, in a minute of rashness, we bought a campervan...... oops. Our new friend, affenctionately named Olive, has cost us 3000 NZD (about 1500 quid) and we are planning on living in her for the next 3 months and travel around the country. There's something called Freedom camping and DOC sites in NZ where grimey backpackers like us can camp for free (or very cheaply) somewhere with water and toilet facilities. The only hitch to our fullproof plan is that we have arrived during the coldest winter ever recorded in Auckland. We think that no matter how cold it is, it can't be as bad as sleeping in a cabin with holes in the roof at the foothills of the Andes. We have bought some books and are writing our top 10 things to see in NZ and planning our route between them. We have to be back in Auckland for the 5th Oct to watch the first semi final (England vs France) of the Rugby World Cup. So our volunteering in NZ has gone out of the window slightly but nevermind. We leave here on Thursday and need to have some kind of plan by then! I cant put any photos on yet but will keep trying.

Love Roo and M x