Tom & Caz go down under

After leaving Paihia in the northland, we travelled to Rotorua - it is one of the places in the world with a lot of volcanic activity going on. The crust of the earth here is the thinnest in the world at 5km.  It was rather weird walking through the park and seeing steaming fumaroles and bubbling mud pits (all of these were just behing our hostel).  We were expecting a really bad rotten egg smell, but it was only particularly noticeable around these areas of activity.  I did try not to think of volcanoes exploding as I went to sleep at night!!  After a long walk around Rotoura we were able to soak our feet in one of the hot pools in the town centre - it was refreshing - perhaps Kingston could consider this outside the Bentalls centre!

It was interesting to see Trafalgar Square on the TV here with people making snowmen.  Whilst we slap on more suncream!!