You may think from the title of this blog that it is the title of a play we have seen or an instruction for a character in a play.  Wrong on both counts. Lady Knox is a Geyser in the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, a large geo-thermal area about 40 mins drive from Rotorua and where…

It is time to leave Whangarei and embark on the next stage of our road trip of New Zealand.  Our destination is Rotorua, in the central region of the country close to the Bay of Plenty and known primarily for it’s Geothermal activity. However our Satnav has different ideas.  After successfully navigating us around Auckland it…

New Zealand is always full of surprises.  In Whangarei we had read of the Quarry Gardens and Quarry Arts Centre as places to visit.  These locations are close by, situated in adjacent old quarries, separated by a steep wooded walk. At the Quarry Gardens is a delightful cafe where we went for our morning coffee…

All journeys start with a single step and so it was for us on Sunday when we left our hotel for the short walk to collect our hire car.  However some things are never that simple and due to some obscure administration processes put in place by our  car hire company, it took us over…

That great chronicler of the Lakeland walks, Alfred Wainwright wrote in his Coast to Coast book……and I paraphrase, “this is the route I took, it is there for you or you can make up your own.  Don’t feel obliged to use my route.” Little did he know (well I assume he did not) that there…

There is a massive feeling of deja vu as we are dropped off at our Heathrow hotel by our good friend Tim.  We have been here before.  Just under a year ago we embarked on our first big Australian adventure and here we are again.  Same hotel, same bar but one year on.  This trip…