we left Auckland and now we’re very busy . . .
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Ok, I haven’t written in a few days because we’ve been busy doing stuff about which to write, right? We rented a car, a tiny little toyota hatchback with a 1.3 litre engine, on Wednesday and left Auckland for good. We had planned on visiting the Coromandel peninsula, which isn’t far from Auckland, stopping in particular at a place called Cathedral Cove, and then we figured we’d make it down to Taupo for the night, which is about 200 km south of the Cove. As we learned, you can’t always judge travel time by distance, because sometimes the road goes through mountains and is super twisty and trecherous. We were also dealing with the whole driving on the wrong side of the road thing, which made the drive up to Cathedral Cove nerve-wracking. If it hadn’t been so scary, the drive would have been absolutely beautiful, as it wound through mountains covered in thick rainforest type vegetation.
awrichner