Hello all. It has been a bit rainy this week but we have still managed to see and do lots. The weather has been very english indeed, with the type of rain that gets everything soaked! Heavy drizzle, so we've spent a lot of time chilling in the van, reading, sleeping and chatting, or watching tv in the communial tv room on the campsite, or just strolling around town. Also we've enjoyed using the hot mineral baths on the campsite. Rotorua is sat on a plate vault, and is reknowned for is thermal activity. The town has a smell of egg to it, caused by the smell of sulphur, which pores out of the ground as steam, and in all the park areas, there are steaming holes, and bubbling mud pools, where the boiling steam rises
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