VEE-TRAVEL: E-mail #7 from Vancouver

Hey guys

It's sure been a while and guess what? We're home in three days!! Shocking eh?!!

New Zealand was a great experience. Sure was different from Oz. The weather was so unpredictable – pretty much like the UK! We drove around in our Spaceship rental car, seeing almost all of the main spots. We stayed in Queenstown for the Easter weekend and celebrated it in style! Went on a 'Shotover Jet', which is a very powerful boat that can be used on water levels as low as 10cm. Driving up north, we stopped at Kaikoura, which is famous for its whales and dolphins. We swam with dolphins in the ocean at 9am, and it was soooo cold – the water seeped through my wetsuit and I couldn't breathe for the first 10 minutes!! The dolphins were everywhere, so many of them and they come up so close!! Fantastic experience that!

Rotuara, in the North Island, is famous for its hot springs – and they smelt badly! Sulphur equals bad eggs!! We had a mud bath for 20 mins and a very cold shower afterwards to close the open pores! Our skin was really soft afterwards! Lake Taupo was a really cool place, and the best place to see where Lord of the Rings was filmed. Waitomo caves was one of the smallest places we had visited, but one of the memorable ones. We did abseiling, tubing, caving and climbing in a package deal with a Tom Cruise lookalike!

We spent our last days mainly in Paihia, Bay of Islands, and it was hot there! We were in our bikinis and sunbathed with a group of people on an overnight cruise. So cool! Snorkelling was great too.

Our next step was Fiji, and blissssssssssssss!! We totally loved it there! The weather was the best! We did one or two nights at different hostels, sampled the local food and drink and watched the locals dance!

We're now in Vancouver, a funky place. We flew 17 hours, but it actually went faster than we thought. When we landed in LA to change planes, we bumped into someone famous!!! So cool!!! It was JR from Dallas! Got a photo with him!

So, just three more days left. Its going to be great to see our friends again, but we will miss the experiences we've had travelling and won't forget it for sure.

A traveller coming back home

Clare xXx

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