As Gill headed off for the start of her Australian adventures, I caught the bus north. I was going to catch up with some of the guys we had met earlier in our New Zealand travels, Laura and Danny, Rob, Pat and some friends of theirs. The bus journey to Kaitaia took about 6 hours out of Auckland, we were booked into Endless Summer, a fantastic big house which overlooks the beach. The boys had already been in the water in wetsuits, as they are all soft Essex boys. The van that we had hired for the week was akin to the A-Team van, in fact the guys had already assumed the character names, leaving me with BA Baracus.... We had to push start the van (a ritual which was repeated more than once...) and headed
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