I hope you'll excuse the length of this one, but due to being unencumbered with such annoyances as work, and having a 6 week mad dash to see the entire country, we did get up to rather a lot. I assure my faithful readers the next blog will return to the usual neglectful brevity. The Mauri driver dropped us off at the Jail around midnight, stiffling a chuckle at our answer to his usual tourist/customer/taximan politeness question "what ya got planned for NZ, bro?". "Ah, we're going to hire a camper van and cruise around, gonna be great". After a peaceful nights rest in the Jailhouse we sauntered down the stairs, lonely german guidebook in hand, ready to dial all of the hire companies and see who'd give us the best price, shortly finding out
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