And so the time has come, after 6 months here, my last blog post from New Zealand.

I left Wellington in the morning 0f 9^th May with the Magic Bus, which was about 20 minutes late and I was beginning to wonder if I had missed it when it showed up. The driver wasn’t Amanda who I was expecting to see, but Russ instead. There weren’t a lot of us on the bus to Taupo which is always a nice way to travel.

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