New Zealand

Well, we spent a few days in the beautiful but very smelly town of Rotorua.  The smell, well that's due to the many, many sulphur springs throughout the town.  Even down to steam coming out of roadside drainpipes! Yep, it's a smelly tourist town.

This cute, quirky café is about five minutes from Piha beach on the west coast of New Zealand. It's located on the steep slant of a hill, but it has ample parking even though it was busy.

Overall review of our second full day tour with Greyline Tours. We were picked up from the centre of Auckland; this tour was also one of those multi-stop tours. We had three destinations we were going to visit today on the north island of New Zealand.

We went to the City Works Depot, on 90 Wellesley St West. This restaurant is placed in the heart of Auckland’s CBD, its surrounded by lots of parking and is near key transport lines into the city. Defiantly a great location for both city dwellers and travellers coming into the city.

Gusto Italiano has a wide variety of authentic Italian food to appease your taste. Located on the Ponsonby Road in Auckland, Gusto Italiano has a lot of competition for your money. Even opposite you have a gelato ice cream place, oh heaven.

So it was our final day in Rotorua, and we headed to Kiwi Kai for a nice Hangi lunch.  Kiwi Kai is situated right next to the main shopping centre, and with parking, just opposite was a really good location.