Hobbit Land Part 2

Subject: Hobbit Land Part 2
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:07:30 +0000


(For those of you who didnt receive part 1 im sorry - ive only just sorted
out all my email addresses from random scraps of paper and vague
recollection - so i hope these addresses are all correct!)

Hello again!

We are now in Napier on the East Coast of the North Island and the sun is
shining. You ll be pleased to hear that this is one of the premium regions
for vinyards in New Zealand! We re staying here til Friday morning and then
heading to Wellington to get the ferry over to the South Island where we
will be for 3 weeks.

But enough of what we will be doing - its all about what we have been doing!

We stayed one night in Auckland and then go the hell out of dodge! rainy not
great as far as i could see. Headed for Waitomo which has Glowworm Caves and
a cave called the Cathedral where Kiri te Kanawa, Sting and UB40 have all
sung in cos the acoustics are amazing. Checked out the thrid largest
waterfall before heading off to Rotorua which stank cos its a sulphurous
rotting egg smelling region. the Hostel we stayed in had a natural spa in
it though whcih was pretty cool - Joe Anna and Dave Peart dyou remember that
natural hot spa that we went to in Kos? well times that smell by a
gizillion and you ll have the same stench that these poor people live with!
oh well their choice and it is supoosed to be good for you!

We ve very cutural I have to admit - next stop was Taupo where we checked
out the Huka Falls and went horse trekking in the hills with a backdrop of
Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings! Then we lauched ourselves off a 47metre
high podium into a freezing lake and rebounded back up again on a piece of
elastic! yes i succumbed to a bungy jump! and cos we did it before 10am we
got it well cheap - belly, alice, lau and anna - so no i wont be doing the
Nevis cos it costs a fortune and once you ve thrown yourself off one podium
it all gets a bit passe!

As soon as we d finfished the bungy we drove to Napier and have been
chilling out since - trying to recover !

So once again you re up to date

MArtin - I think it ll be really quite easy to do NZ without alcohol - but
ask me again once ive been to the MAlborough region which is the biggest
wine region - its all about vino. Good luck on the jobs - fingers crossed
for you - individual email soon.

Stephanie gray where is my email please?

Anna cheers for email and text - I hope everyone else is reading this bit
and being put to shame!!

Naz still no drunken stories - you ll have to wait til Oz i think - there is
too much to do and see here to wake up with a hangover.

Mummles cheers for email love you lots

Phil - i ll send you an email shortly - but cant tell you much really cos
havent heard anything. Good news about you coming over for crimbo - proper
Guilfoyle family reunion!

Hols - its all about extreme sports! Oblivion is def up there with the
scariest!

Girls from home and College hope youre good. keep me informed please.

Dave Peart - sorry you didnt get first email. get rossco to forward it on to
you.

Rossco - did you get my reply to your test?

Anybody else who i have missed - email me and i ll remember to put you in my
next email!

Lots of love.x