warmth and continued through the centre, we must have been in there for a good 2-3 hours in total, it was a festinating place and only built up our enthusiasm for visiting the place for real in January 07! We sat and had a coffee and sandwich and good chat with Penny before we said our goodbyes to her. It had been really great meeting up with her again and its such a shame that she has now returned to New Zealand for good, but hopefully one day we will be in the same vicinity and get to meet up again.

Time was ticking by and we headed back to the campsite to cook so Rob could eat before he flew to Auckland. Thankfully the airport was only 5 minutes away so it didn’t take long to head over there and drop Rob off. It was quite strange waving him off as it was the first time we had spent a night apart in over a year. I suppose we have had such a concentrated amount of time together and because

it was a year to the day that we had started our adventure, neither of us had thought that one of us would be typing up diaries in the South Island and one would be staying a dorm room in Auckland!!! It just goes to show that you can never predict life!!!

I woke up rather hot due to the fact that I had wrapped myself up in more clothes than usual due to my radiator man not being there. I then went to get some breakfast and ended up chatting with a resident of the campsite who had Alzheimer’s and keep telling me how she had just cut her husbands hair which may not seem quite so strange apart from the fact that her husband wears a hair-piece!!! Unfortunately I never got to see the husbands newly cut hairpiece, which I would have quite liked to see but I do have a fantastic mental image which in some ways may be better!!! After this my first priority was to get my hair cut so back into