Tauranga & 'The Mount'

Hey guys,

Been awhile since we last wrote as we have been on a busy little road trip which we'll be writing about in our next entry...Anyways, from Rotorua we headed up to the coast to a place called Tauranga. Not before Rusty got roped into doing the Haka at the bus stop however- as you can see he needs to beef up a bit before he could be mistaken for a true Maori!!

Tauranga itself was basically just a holiday resort type town and we mainly went there to check out the beach at Mount Maunganui, which as you can see from the picks below was quite rubbish!!

The 'Mount' is in the background of the pic with Rusty in, and you can walk up to the top for some good views, but we gave this is a miss in favour of reading books and lounging around all day!! (I found the last ever Poirot mystery in the hostel we were staying in and read it all in about 2 hours on the beach- hurrah!)

After a couple of days in Tauranga we caught the bus to Auckland to pick up our hire car for our road trip. The sky tower below is the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, which you can jump off. But we didn't.

Instead we found the most amazing place for dinner called Mexical- Em and Kirst you would love this place. It's basically like a Mexican subway where you choose your 'bread' (i.e. burrito, taco etc) and then your fillings. The resulting burrito could surely have been used to bludgeon a man to death it was so weighty! Hope they are less filling in the real Mexico or we will be returning rather larger than our former selves!!

Adios for now...C&R xxx