The adventure begins...

Time had flown by and it was now time to say goodbye to Timaru. We squeezed all our stuff into one car and started our journey northward.

To break up the drive we stayed one night in a holiday park in Kaikoura. The next morning Sami insisted it was 'essential' that we stopped just north of Kaikoura so he could get in one last dive. Then we drove further along the road to check out the baby seals in the waterfall pool at Ohau Stream - simply amazing!

After taking a very long and boring ferry across the Cook Staight (we forgot you can't access the car and left all of the good stuff in there -

amature), we rested up in Upper Hutt. In the morning we said our see you laters to Mike, Eilidh and the zoo, and fed the bunnies their breakfast before continuing north.

In Sanson we met up with a uni friend for lunch and a catchup. Then made it to Foxhill Farm where we could enjoy a few days rest, cook our mums a mothersday breakfast, and finally unpack the car and pack/re-pack/re-re-pack our bags for Europe.

After catching a bus to Auckland we spent a day and a half with Jade and David before finally making it to Auckland Airport.

Next stop Zurich via Singapore!