Today we landed in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. We passed Customs and went to the bank and changed some sterling to New Zealand. Daddy saw a Hertz rental car desk, so we rented a Mini and set off for New Plymouth.
The countryside is different – hills left right and centre with narrow ledges (made by sheep I think). The sheep here look like ones out of babies’ rag books, with clean white wool. There was one cloud that looked awfully like a snow-capped mountain, so mummy looked on the map to see if there was one in that area, and it was Mount Egmont! As it got darker the peak started to go negative, it looked beaut.
At last we found a motel, and I slept like a dead log. In the morning we woke up very early and had breakfast. There was an ancient radio in the flat about as big as a fridge!