Central

The luxuries of camping
What a view

Some of the campsites were really busy - not!

No sooner are you talking with the sheep and cows when they change to houses and garages and fast food joints and your quiet one lane country road turns into a hurtling 3 lane motorway - almost in the blink of an eye. To go from North to central you have no other choice than to go via Auckland as Auckland is located in the bottle neck between the two and all traffice is filtered this way. But again, no sooner has the view of the Skytower zoomed past in the distance when the houses start to fade away and the 3 lanes turn to 2 and back to a one lane country road - it took slightly longer than when going north but not quite like driving the M1 out of London! The yellow submarine is easy to drive with good visibility and not too bad fuel consumption and it is certainly a talking point - people keep taking photographs of it (not me) and kids wave as I go by - how quaint. I have seen a few other decorated campers on the road and I thing I like mine the best so far, I am certainly glad I am not driving the one with 3 naked ladies onthe side of it - what would people think!!!!????