New Zealand is beautiful! It is magnificently green, you close your weary eyes, and the next moment it is all dry and brown. The green hills are rough now, setting into the beackground and the lanscape turns flat. It is getting green, the earth is rutted, the hills become finer. That scenery leaves me in pity of the travellers on the bus who just stare at their screens. To my cousins (you know who you are ;)): Imagine our sandpit along a stunning river, 2000x more beautiful and with a better view on wheatfields and our Wiehengebirge. That’s what it looked like in some parts! Though the bus doesn’t stop, it goes on. The most irregular thing I saw was the ice skating place in Taupo. It is summer and they just put an ice skating venue there! 😀
As we get closer to our destination, the city Rotorua which is known for its hot springs, you can actually see white smoke rising from the forest. At the last light of the day, we walk over to the hostel…
It is enough. I have spent a whole month in Wellington. The hostel, that still is my first accomodation here, became some sort of home to me. But it felt not quite like traveling, as nice as it has been there… I have grown very fond of Wellington, know myself around and got to know marvellous people. 🙂 I predominantly awaited my bag and haven’t seen a bit of it yet. Why hold on to your plan then? That’s why I decided to take a little trip in the North Island.
A most lovely Japanese girl which I got to know in Wellington works in a hostel in Rotorua, which I of course booked for the nights. We actually got there on the same bus and I was happy to have somebody who knows herself around here. 🙂
Rotorua smells of sulphur, sometimes more, sometimes less. I hope to get used to it soon… The wheather is different from Wellington. It is hot and feels like summer. Wellington is always windy, it hardly gets properly warm. I have had breakfast, sit in the curtilage of the quirky hostel now and the cat rests next to me. Cats are funny beasts. Sometimes they scratch, sometimes they beg for attention, then they have enough of your care…
It feels like traveling now, save to say. You are not bound to a place anymore, you can move freely. And only because you got to change your way of thinking.
