Lord Of The Dings! - Meg

It's now Wednesday 6th May- Happy Birthday Becci!! We have spent two nights in Peggy... but... have had to stay close to Auckland due to her failing her W.O.F. (M.O.T.) so we've needed to get her fixed. This has been a rather pricey do and has consequently bumped us into the real world.
Peggy has had the mechanical work done on her yesterday and today is getting her rust fixed, at LORD OF THE DINGS!


When we got the news that Peggy needed work doing to her before we would get our W.O.F (I always say Woof and I get funny looks from the mechanics who seemingly find it difficult to communicate with women, maybe this is why?) We decided to get out of town and make the whole experience a bit more pleasant. So Phil, Peggy and I drove into the sunset for 15 minutes until we reached Takepuna - a small suburb of Auckland by the sea. It actually felt really good to be out of town, albeit on a campsite full of swanky motor homes. Peggy looked very weathered next to them! Anyway, there is a big kitchen and clean hot showers so a good place to ease into our new travelling world. We recognised a few of the other older vans from the car market on Sunday. Their owners hadn't managed to sell them so they were doing the same as us and trying to get away from Auckland. It was nice to speak to them about their time in NZ but they're all a bit low not being able to sell their vans and just wanting to get on with the rest of their trips. One couple said they've only got $150 left (about £60). We saw another couple we'd seen at the car market, in Auckland yesterday walking into the Pawn shop with their guitar... So again we are looking forward to getting on our way and away from reality. We agreed we'd get a job before we have to pawn anything!!


I forgot to mention... before we left the hostel on Monday morning Phil was loading Peggy up, when a distraught girl came running in. She was meant to be taking her sister to the airport where she was flying back to Israel and she'd got a flat tyre. So, (get the Super man theme tune in your head)... Phil Kerr to the rescue, that was after he'd said “hold on I think I can do it, I'll just go get my wife to come and help!” So between us we mended their tyre and waved them off to the airport.


While Peggy has been getting mended we've been walking around Auckland, going to galleries, walking in the parks, taking pictures, sorting more boring paperwork out, more picture-taking, eating our packed lunches, deciding what to have for tea, moaning about Richard Hammond being on bill boards everywhere, laughing at the naff advertising, running for shelter from the rain, enjoying the amazing sun light/clouds/moody skies, taking more pictures, being grateful that we're not at work or had to pawn anything, yet!!







So hopefully by the end of today we will be on our way to the Coromandel. We hope you are all well :-) x