Cook's Tour

Well we escaped from Napier eventually (as do many Students in Edinburgh). The two main roads stayed closed all day, the southern escape was still lined with police so we went North on a 9 hour detour through Gisborne. They caught the murderer when we were four hours North and then reopened the roads after 6 hours so it was just as well we didn't wait. At Gisborne we saw the place where James Cook landed - 200 years before the birth of David Morrison. (Do your sums..!)

First we saw his awful big obelisk then we saw his statue, which they later discovered wasn't one they had commsioned of Captain Cook as it was the wrong uniform and didn't look like him at all! The sign says "We have no idea who this is!"

The scenery was great at the way home through millions of trees lining the gorges and rivers and water falls and bridges so narrow we had to queue up to let the re routed lorries squeeze through single file. We ended up in Rotorua - we didn't find the smell of rotten eggs too offensive but the person at the next table in the restaurant thew up her dinner all over her plate so she obviously wasn't coping with the sulphur fumes. We should have asked for compensation I reckon! However we kept on driving through beautiful scenery into darkness and after a very bonny sunset behind the hills we arrived home to Hamilton.