Hey everyone!
After a short stay in a stinking room in Auckland, I went up north to Paihia in the Bay of Islands. A very nice day, walking in the shopping street and taking the ferry to Russell, the very first European settlement in New Zealand. We visited the treaty grounds of Waitangi, the place where the Maori Chiefs signed the agreements about the creating of the country of NZ.
Russell is a nice, but very small place, so after a small walk I went for some sleeping and sunbathing on the beach! In the evening I went for a drink in the local pub where I met two friends whome I already met three times before. It was really nice to see them again! Wat a nice evening!
Today I took the bus as far north as possible, to Cape Reinga. The Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea come together and make a wonderful scenery. On the way back, we drove over the ninety mile beach in the sand back to Paihia, really cool. You could see several cars crashed in the sand. Our bus wasn’t really a bus, but a truck with the back of a bus 
Otherwise it couldn’t drive over the beach. We all had our fish ‘n chips in the best fish ‘n chips take-away in NZ and had our dinner all together in the bus
on the ferry to Russell
Anna and Hanna in Paihia. We met in Tatapouri for the shark cage diving, but I had to leave early and weather wasn't very good. They stayed till weather was good enough for diving, but the sharks never came
Cape Reinga: the Maori beleave that this is the place where the spirits of the dead return to the Underworld
sandboarden on Ninety Mile Beach
driving on Ninety Mile Beach (it really is a busy road)
More than a one night stand on the bus... 
zorbing in Rotorua (I'm inside that ball ful of water, rolling down the hill)
stingray feeding in the Pacific, in Tatapouri-Gisborne
Cathedral Cove
Hot Water Beach
Salut Stijn,
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merci beaucoup pour ta carte postale:)
j’aime bien de recevoir des cartes postales exotiques – ma dernière était d’Erfurt, 1,5 heures de Leipzig…pas trop spéctaculaire
Le week-end passé j’étais à la maison…trop cool, je peux pas comprendre comment tu peux quitter ta famille autant de temps?!
Moi, je pourrais jamais le faire.
Mais quand même c’est très cool, ce que tu fais chaque jour, t’es beaucoup plus sage que moi maintenant
Ma nièce peut maintenant rigoler avec toi, quand tu fais des bêtises, cool…
J’ai fini la peinture pour ma petite soeur comme cadeau pour Noel avec mon clube des peintres et le samedi j’étais chez “Badesalz” ce sont des comiques de la région Hesse, ils parlent dans ce dialecte, après cette soirée j’avais mal dans mes joues…j’ai rigolé trop.
Bon, je pense que c’est assez pour maintenant.
Beaucoup des bisous
One night stands op de bus??? Jaja…