After being woken up at 5.40am in the youth hostel (by youngsters getting up to go to work and not worrying about banging doors) we arrived early at the airport and managed to get on an earlier flight to Auckland. We picked up our hire car and drove for about 4 hours to our home for 1 week south of Lake Taupo.
We have a studio apartment which is a luxurious space compared to the van. The resort is very small - only 13 units but it has a games room, bikes, a jacuzzi and a free laundry. So I put all our washing on and we played table tennis to get some exercise after sitting in the bus, plane and car.
Hanging by the front door of our apartment is a packed rucksack for use in a disaster. We are again on a fault line which runs right through the lake. On Saturday we visited an area which has hot water springs and bubbling mud - weird to see.
It is noticeably different on the north island - much busier and there are notices in the car parks about theft.
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