Geothermal central - Rotorua

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The two German girls in my room were super noisy this morning, chatting in the room, with complete disregard at 7.30am. After an hour of this I was rather fed up, so I gave in trying to sleep and got up.

As my bus wasn’t until 4pm this afternoon, I checked out, put all my luggage in storage, and much to my surprise had a highly amusing day. I went for an amazing late breakfast at a place called Bodyfuel – salmon and poached eggs with spinach….yum! Dave and I wondered round town, and noticed there was a home and garden show on. It was a $5 ticket event but as we were walking away a lady offered us two free tickets, so we grateful accepted. This show had such an array of items on sale, a bit like an American home shopping channel on television. I could have bought I wood burner, water crystals for the garden, flooring tiles, garlic preserving salts, hand creams, garden wormeires…..the list is endless. In fact of everything, the only thing I would have bought if I had a house was the wormery. The highlight had to be when a house alarm salesman was pestering me, and said why didn’t I want one of his alarm systems for my home, was when I turned round and said ‘because I don’t have a house’. His face was a picture!

After locating a fresh juice store and purchasing my new favourite – apple, carrot, beetroot and ginger juice I head back to the hostel and chill with Alex, Dave and Pat for a while until it was time to brace the torrential rain and catch the bus.

I arrive in Rotaroa an hour and a half later, luckily in the sunshine, and locate my hostel which is super central, so very handy. I am surprised by the lack of smell, I have been warned so much about the sulphur smell here, due to the geothermal areas, but its only a discreet background smell, no more than a two on the environmental oduour monitoring smell scale!

I head out just for a wonder round this evening, despite the now torrential rain. I locate and pick up some broccoli in the massive supermarket and then navigate back to the hostel, as it is now dark and everything looks different!

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