Next stop; Coromandel
We have now spent one night in Hamilton, bought an air madrass and we are off to Coromandel area. Our plan is to drive around, probably sleep in the car some nights at camp sites, go surfing in Whangamata, visit the Hot Water Beach, see the Cathedral Cove and much more!
I'll update you more soon again :)
I miss Raglan already though...
Instagram photos from Raglan;
We bought a CAR...
...and after two amazing weeks in Raglan me and Vidde are now staying one night in Hamilton.
This car is now ours and I really hope that it will take us around NZ!
RAGLAN
Life is great. We have been in Raglan about a week now and it is just an amazing little town, or even called village. It is small here.
There are a lot of outdoor adventures to try in Raglan, not the most extreme ones, but real relaxed and enjoyable ones. Except from surfing, which we both love doing and can do every single day if we want to, we have seen things like the wharf and different beaches by bike and tried kayaking. Yesterday we paddled around for hours, came to see Okete Falls, a beautiful waterfall and we had a great time.
I did my second assignment in Business English before the weekend. An online test in Business Vocabulary and Grammar. It went great, feels like I passed, but I haven't got my grade yet... So crossed fingers.
We have booked the hostel here for one more week. Hope to be able to surf even more and to enjoy the black sand beaches for hours.
Time to leave the library and the free wireless internet. Talk to you soon!
There are a lot of outdoor adventures to try in Raglan, not the most extreme ones, but real relaxed and enjoyable ones. Except from surfing, which we both love doing and can do every single day if we want to, we have seen things like the wharf and different beaches by bike and tried kayaking. Yesterday we paddled around for hours, came to see Okete Falls, a beautiful waterfall and we had a great time.
I did my second assignment in Business English before the weekend. An online test in Business Vocabulary and Grammar. It went great, feels like I passed, but I haven't got my grade yet... So crossed fingers.
We have booked the hostel here for one more week. Hope to be able to surf even more and to enjoy the black sand beaches for hours.
Time to leave the library and the free wireless internet. Talk to you soon!
Watched the Sunset @ the beach, eating Pizza from Domino's
Leaving Gisborne for Raglan now
Last minutes in Gizzy... Two weeks has passed and me and Vidde are leaving for Raglan with the InterCity bus in a short while...
Gisborne has been great and we have done a LOT of surfing and I am pretty sure that I have improved :)
We celebrated our last night yesterday with pizza at the beach and watched the sunset together with Louise, and our new friends Malin from Sweden and Tom from England. A great time and awesome company.
I will miss Louise like crazy. Hope to see her soon again <3
Time to board the bus... I will update you more in Raglan.
Another cloudy and windy day in Gisborne
The weather today gives me more time to continue studying and right now me and Vidde are hanging out at i-site, a booking place where they offer free wi-fi. Perfect!
We have also decided to leave Gisborne for Raglan on Monday 11th February and booked the InterCity bus today. It will take us directly to Hamilton, and from there we're planning to catch the local bus to Raglan. The rest of the stay here will probably offer some more surfing and time to hang out with Louise. Because she will continue alone for a while, and I cross my fingers that we will meet up soon again. Will miss her!
Later on we would love to get some good waves in Raglan too, maybe even better than here, and hopefully be able to stay there for a longer period of time. I am excited about that future! No one knows what happens...
Just a few photos from my camera too :)
Photo taken a while ago in Mount Maunganui...
Just a stunning view along the east coast..
Our nice rental car :) The white Toyota!
The lighthouse at East Cape - the most eastern point in the world.
Beautiful landscape...
Photos by Vidde
Have a look into this blog; viddekeith.wordpress.com. Vidde is posting niiice photos of our stay here in New Zealand! Enjoy :)
Surfing near Gisborne
It is Tuesday, the 5th February 2013 today. Me and Louise have been in New Zealand for more than one month now and Vidde came about a week ago. It, of course, feels like a lot longer ago since we first arrived in Auckland, but still, four weeks is quite a while and we have experienced a lot.
At the moment we are all in Gisborne, me, Louise and Vidde, hanging out in a four bed dorm at Flying Nun Backpackers (that's ringt; it is the name of our BBH hostel). We have had a great time those two past week. Last Saturday we left Mount Maunganui/Taurnaga, rented a white Toyota a drove down the east cost. We past small cute towns like Whakatane, Opotiki - were we picked up Louise, East Cape and the lighthouse, Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay. Spent two nights at different places, one at a way too expensive motel; Hicks Bay Motel and another in a crazy unit on a camp site in Tolaga Bay where it was freezing cold at night. They do not isolate there houses at all here. Anyway, we will always remember those days as such a good time and especially all the incredible views over beautiful landscape, nature and of course the stunning ocean.
East Cape is the worlds most eastern point. It is where the sun comes up first every day. For sure a pretty cool place to come to, but our goal was to go further south and to be able to go S U R F I N G in Gisborne....
...and we have bought our first wet suits, me and Vidde. I got one from Roxy and I like it very much. All of us took our first surfing lesson in NZ the other day and we LOVE IT. It is just so much fun and I hope to improve my surfing skills during our stay here. It is a feeling of being free. We started on a 9 feet board and now we're down on a sevenseven and I think we stay with those for a while :)
The plan in to stay here in Gisborne until this upcoming weekend, celebrate my birthday here on Friday together with both Louise and Vidde, and then probably travel to the west coast. Me and Vidde would like to go to Raglan, outside Hamilton, which is another surf spot in NZ. We have found a lovely BBH hostel there to start with, where they offer kayaks, bikes, hot tub, sauna and much more, all for free. If we're still amazed when we get there we maybe settle down for a bit longer.
I look forward to get more of a "home feeling", be able to unpack our suitcases and to get to know a place even better.
Today is the first day with heavy raining here. The only positive thing with that is that I have time to update my blog, time to study and it is a good reason to just relax and maybe watch a movie. Right now I am doing exercises online to be able to complete assignment 2 in Business English before the 14th February. I still enjoy my course a lot and it works alright to study abroad :)
To be continued...say hello to the winter at home in Sweden!
