Back on the road this morning after our day off yesterday and we’ve got a 90 mile drive. What we didn’t realise is that the majority is on mountain roads and we don’t have the most powerful bus in the world

Destination, Taupo, was reached around 1pm and a quick bit to eat on the run and straight to a thermal walk trail. Should have only been 30 minutes, but we let Rebecca walk a lot of it so this took a while. Some nice hot rocks and vents giving of steam and the standard sulphur smell, lovely. All very Jurassic with the big ferns about as well but the are only so many photos you can take of a plant with steam! Nice little cafe at the walk as well, with chickens, Lama’s and peacocks (odd selection, we know!). Still Rebecca had good fun playing with them all

Next stop is the real reason for being in Taupo, the Haka Falls. The main river that flows thought the area, the longest in NZ enters a very narrow gorge, around 500feet long and the river pounds through at a serious rate of knots. If you fell in, you’re dead, period. Really nice photo opportunity so spent some time there as I haven’t the rest of he holiday really. Second stop was a dam downstream, again with a narrow gorge after it creating some big old rapids

Anyway, the A&E part. Basically I’ve had a serious tooth problem all day. This has happened before and I was given antibiotics to help. So, down A&E and 30 mins later out with some pills. All good but mouth hurts loads