My favourite poem is Robert Frost’s Road Less Travelled. In fact this blog was almost called The Untravelled Road, until we settled on Getting Lost and well, the rest is history. The Auckland to Wellington drive is a well trodden one for me - having spent much...
I played the Getting Lost Game with my three daughters to find a location for our holiday in the last week of Summer school holidays (you can get yours and start your adventure over here). After some random directions we ended up in Taupo. With no plans (not even...
I feel like seasoned visitors to Taupo are going to think this is a crazy question but the question on our minds when we arrived in Taupo in the midst of 30 degree plus temperatures is can you swim at Lake Taupo? Lakes are notorious for being freezing so they are...
The kids were desperate to go to DeBrett thermal pools on our holiday but I was a little bit unsure. Should you go to DeBretts on a hot day? Surprisingly the answer to this one is yes, you should go to Taupo DeBretts Spa Resort on a hot day. It’s a great place...
We’ve long been fans of giving the kids some budgetary and planning responsibility when planning our holidays. When you know where you are going in advance When we plan a holiday in advance we usually print out a map and then let the kids pick a location of the...
I knew we drove a lot this summer - what I didn’t realise is that we drove for 27 hours, or over 2,000 kms. This summer we took our longest break yet - 3 whole glorious weeks off to spend with the kids. We separated our holiday into 3 legs which I would thoroughly...
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