It was yet another early start to catch the bus, up at quater to 6 on a Saturday (wouldn't be seen dead doing that in the UK lol). Some last minute packing and check and being grateful for free food from my Auntie (we love you even more now!). My Uncle Pete then gave us a lift to the bus station (Thank You!) and we waited to get into Auland. We got there at about 7:45 (I think) for a 8:15 bus which gave us enough time to brush our teeth in the harbour toilets just across the road. Once we were on the bus it was another 6 or so hours to Taupo with not much other than a snooze and some cards happening on the bus (edge of the seat stuff right?).....
Anyway moving on (literally) We got dropped off right outside the iSite in Taupo and asked about places to camp (it was time to test the tent). The nearest one was about a half hour walk from the middle of town but had really good facilities including a kitchin, lounge/games room and a hot pool!! It was not a pleasent walk with our packs weighing over 20kg easily and the ground being pretty wet. After a little tiff about which route would be quickest it took us just over half an hour to walk into reception where a really lovely lady called Kim and her dog, Poppy, where waiting to welcome us. She actually knocked down the price from $18 to $16 for us as well with me doing very little other than saying hmmmmmmmm......$18 per person per night for 3 nights is........... After playing with the very cute dog we pitched up on pretty dry ground and got all our stuff sorted in the tent. There was acres of space inside and we managed to get set up pretty quickly, it was then strait to the thermal pool! It was gorgeous and really helped with the aches of carrying a big bag around. After we had litely boiled ourselves it was off to the showers, so it was turning out a good start to the day.
Once we were dressed and sorted we decided to have an early tea, the shepards pie my Auntie had given us, even though we microwaved it, it still went down a treat. We decided to go into town and find an internet cafe at around 4 or 5. The clouds quickly turned from just looking threaterning to spitting. We found a cool little internet cafe which even had a $2.40 happy hour from 5 till 7. We did very little in the way of what was supposed to be a blogging session and played on some of the games available instead....woops. At around half 7 we made a few calls to home (8:30 am UK time). I only got to talk to Sarah for a few minutes because we were running out of credit on skype, it really really SUCKED, and actually got me on a bit of a downer. I mean I wanted to have a proper chat with her, about the moon walk and all the stuff I had done but basically all I got in was, "Hi, I love you, Bye". So I was in a bit of a crappy mood after that (sorry Jak). But on the upside I did get to chat to my mun and dad which was nice (hope your weekend away in belgium was nice?). Once we had finished, not blogging lol, it was time to face the very wet walk back to camp. I have to tell you the rain did not improve the walk even if we didn't have packs (seemed like a bit of pathetic fallacy to me - imitation of emotions in the surroundings ie feel rubbish, weather is rubbish). Still our early dinner tacktic had left us hungry so we ordered Pizza and then decided to run through the rain for 15 mins to go and get it. It was kind of worth it because it filled a gap even if we did get a bit wet the rain stopped for the walk back so that improved things a bit.
Back to camp, a few beers and a game or two of cards before it was back to bed.
Well not the best day but it was bound to happen in a 6 week long trip and things are fine now, so all good I guess!
Much love another post coming soon, I am aiming to be up to date over the next few days.
Much love
Joe x x x x x x x
Anyway moving on (literally) We got dropped off right outside the iSite in Taupo and asked about places to camp (it was time to test the tent). The nearest one was about a half hour walk from the middle of town but had really good facilities including a kitchin, lounge/games room and a hot pool!! It was not a pleasent walk with our packs weighing over 20kg easily and the ground being pretty wet. After a little tiff about which route would be quickest it took us just over half an hour to walk into reception where a really lovely lady called Kim and her dog, Poppy, where waiting to welcome us. She actually knocked down the price from $18 to $16 for us as well with me doing very little other than saying hmmmmmmmm......$18 per person per night for 3 nights is........... After playing with the very cute dog we pitched up on pretty dry ground and got all our stuff sorted in the tent. There was acres of space inside and we managed to get set up pretty quickly, it was then strait to the thermal pool! It was gorgeous and really helped with the aches of carrying a big bag around. After we had litely boiled ourselves it was off to the showers, so it was turning out a good start to the day.
Once we were dressed and sorted we decided to have an early tea, the shepards pie my Auntie had given us, even though we microwaved it, it still went down a treat. We decided to go into town and find an internet cafe at around 4 or 5. The clouds quickly turned from just looking threaterning to spitting. We found a cool little internet cafe which even had a $2.40 happy hour from 5 till 7. We did very little in the way of what was supposed to be a blogging session and played on some of the games available instead....woops. At around half 7 we made a few calls to home (8:30 am UK time). I only got to talk to Sarah for a few minutes because we were running out of credit on skype, it really really SUCKED, and actually got me on a bit of a downer. I mean I wanted to have a proper chat with her, about the moon walk and all the stuff I had done but basically all I got in was, "Hi, I love you, Bye". So I was in a bit of a crappy mood after that (sorry Jak). But on the upside I did get to chat to my mun and dad which was nice (hope your weekend away in belgium was nice?). Once we had finished, not blogging lol, it was time to face the very wet walk back to camp. I have to tell you the rain did not improve the walk even if we didn't have packs (seemed like a bit of pathetic fallacy to me - imitation of emotions in the surroundings ie feel rubbish, weather is rubbish). Still our early dinner tacktic had left us hungry so we ordered Pizza and then decided to run through the rain for 15 mins to go and get it. It was kind of worth it because it filled a gap even if we did get a bit wet the rain stopped for the walk back so that improved things a bit.
Back to camp, a few beers and a game or two of cards before it was back to bed.
Well not the best day but it was bound to happen in a 6 week long trip and things are fine now, so all good I guess!Much love another post coming soon, I am aiming to be up to date over the next few days.
Much love
Joe x x x x x x x
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