Hi guys, After the long, but beautiful, ride through National Park from Taupo I arrived in Napier two weeks ago. Its a nice place with cool Art Deco buildings and a great sea view, but its also one of those many examples of the Kiwi's not understanding the word 'city'! How can it be a city if its got a smaller population that Hartlepool! From there I meet up with the apple picking people in Hastings and prepared for the shock of actually working again. Didn't really pick apples until this week, due to the rain and the apples not being ready (quite what that means I don't know). But once we got started it was cool, and i'm actually good at it! We get paid by how much we pick so i've got to be
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