Parting is such 'Sweet As' sorrow...
A ferry crossing back to the North Island saw us back in Wellington for a night stop over and then and early bus back to Taupo. We'd swapped our lovely Ginny for the annoying Nancy Boy (I don't know why anyone would want such a stupid nickname) who droned on for the most part of the journey, and only gave up when he put 'Euro Roadtrip' on which is a film so bad, its good. Made me laugh anyway...
Taupo was another 'Last Night' (we'd had like 4 last nights for every leaver) and so we ended up back in the Holy Cow. This time it was rammed full of mad Kiwi locals because there'd been some festival / rally on in the town and so Rob Fox manage to get his arsed whipped by a Hen on her 'do'. He said it hurt but that didn't stop him hanging his arse out later for another lashing- you can tell what kind of place the Holy Cow is now eh? Pure trash-but-class.
In the morning it was another really sad goodbye to the other half of Team Gentlemen... Frodo (James) and his Sam Wise Gamgee. It was hard this one- but I'm sure we'll see these tricksy Hobbits again? Sam could also do a scary 'Gollum' when he felt like it- unnerving when you're traveling through Middle Earth. Oh well Sam, Rach & Soph will go and see your band, I'll be there in spirit.
Amsterdam & myself were pretty gutted to get to Auckland. She flew off to Cairns to go Scuba, and I headed up to the Bay of Islands, my last New Zealand destination. Shhneakers, I'll see you soon you mad-but-lovely bint.
The Bay of Islands is the far north of NZ but I took a bus trip to 'The Top Bit'- the most northern tip of NZ and checked out the amazing scenery at Cape Regina (lovely lighthouse look out and fantastic beaches) and did a spot of Sandboarding which was superb. Then the bus ran along 90 Mile Beach through the shallow waters and then we stopped because there were WILD HORSES galloping along the beach! They were so beautiful, and one was heavily pregnant. Apparently there's about 300 of them roaming free, and are thought to only live for about 9 years avg because they accidentally eat the sand. But you wouldn't think it- they looked so strong & powerful. And free. Really beautiful. It totally summed up New Zealand for me, its such a healthy, heady country. The people wash their clothes in cold water, recycle, and care about their environment. They don't have an army and are Nuclear free. Not many cars on the road, and such a diverse amount of scenery from the rolling 'Babe' like greens of the North, to the Alps, glaciers, beaches and walks of the South. And 'Gourmet Pies' at every road stop ;)
Driving back to Auckland with my head resting against the window pane of the bus I just sat inside myself, watching the countryside whizz by, and I felt really sad to say goodbye. So much done in so little time! And then I saw off my last night in the Globe Bar, wrecked. Because that's what you do- its The Law. I had little expectation of New Zealand and it gave so much. So you have to go there. Because it really is Sweet As Bro.
Taupo was another 'Last Night' (we'd had like 4 last nights for every leaver) and so we ended up back in the Holy Cow. This time it was rammed full of mad Kiwi locals because there'd been some festival / rally on in the town and so Rob Fox manage to get his arsed whipped by a Hen on her 'do'. He said it hurt but that didn't stop him hanging his arse out later for another lashing- you can tell what kind of place the Holy Cow is now eh? Pure trash-but-class.
In the morning it was another really sad goodbye to the other half of Team Gentlemen... Frodo (James) and his Sam Wise Gamgee. It was hard this one- but I'm sure we'll see these tricksy Hobbits again? Sam could also do a scary 'Gollum' when he felt like it- unnerving when you're traveling through Middle Earth. Oh well Sam, Rach & Soph will go and see your band, I'll be there in spirit.
Amsterdam & myself were pretty gutted to get to Auckland. She flew off to Cairns to go Scuba, and I headed up to the Bay of Islands, my last New Zealand destination. Shhneakers, I'll see you soon you mad-but-lovely bint.
The Bay of Islands is the far north of NZ but I took a bus trip to 'The Top Bit'- the most northern tip of NZ and checked out the amazing scenery at Cape Regina (lovely lighthouse look out and fantastic beaches) and did a spot of Sandboarding which was superb. Then the bus ran along 90 Mile Beach through the shallow waters and then we stopped because there were WILD HORSES galloping along the beach! They were so beautiful, and one was heavily pregnant. Apparently there's about 300 of them roaming free, and are thought to only live for about 9 years avg because they accidentally eat the sand. But you wouldn't think it- they looked so strong & powerful. And free. Really beautiful. It totally summed up New Zealand for me, its such a healthy, heady country. The people wash their clothes in cold water, recycle, and care about their environment. They don't have an army and are Nuclear free. Not many cars on the road, and such a diverse amount of scenery from the rolling 'Babe' like greens of the North, to the Alps, glaciers, beaches and walks of the South. And 'Gourmet Pies' at every road stop ;)
Driving back to Auckland with my head resting against the window pane of the bus I just sat inside myself, watching the countryside whizz by, and I felt really sad to say goodbye. So much done in so little time! And then I saw off my last night in the Globe Bar, wrecked. Because that's what you do- its The Law. I had little expectation of New Zealand and it gave so much. So you have to go there. Because it really is Sweet As Bro.
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