It’s been an exciting week, here in New Zealand. Not only does the country have a new coalition government (which – somewhat controversially – doesn’t include the party who finished in first place in the recent election), but the polls have just closed on the Bird of the Year contest (my vote goes to the Kea, because it has an awesome name). Crazy days.
After leaving Auckland and then seeing Waitomo on Monday and Hobbiton on Tuesday of last week, we arrived on Tuesday evening in Rotorua. (I can’t believe I’m somehow now nearly a week behind on posts… there’s just too much going on during this leg of the tour to keep up. I’m going to have to compress more days into single posts and/or increase the posting frequency until I get back on top of the situation.)
We once again ended up using CamperMate (which has really become our go-to tool for our NZ accommodation) to select a campsite for the evening. We chose the Cozy Cottage Thermal Holiday Park, mainly because…