My good colleague and friend Dan is in Wellington for SilverStripe business. But, besides that, he also wanted, to obviously, discover New Zealand. And as I hadn't done that yet in the just-over-a-year I am living here, it was the perfect opportunity to go on a roadtrip together!

Be aware, the images showing our time on the road are quite large. Possibly resizing them some time soon, cropping out unneeded information too.

So, without further ado.... ROADTRIP!

Wellington to Napier

It all started in Wellington, where we left for Napier. A fun trip, missing two exits, we found that we managed to get to Napier anyway.

Napier, just so you know, is the Art Deco capital of the world, that dies after 6PM-ish.

Napier to Coromandel via Taupo and Rotorua

After a night of sleep, we continued our journey, via Taupo and Rotorua to Coromandel. We managed to see geysers, waterfalls and a bunch more things which you can see in the gallery at the end of this post.

From Napier to Coromandel, we stopped in Taupo and Rotorua. We saw a lot of water, especially sulfur though. As you can see in the photos, the ground was yellow from all the sulfur in the air. Bizarre and nauseating! But also quite awesome. We saw the Huka falls, which is basically a huge rapid flow of water. Quite cool! Dan then started to go all rally driving, on the last bit to Coromandel. Quite scary to know you have NOTHING on your right and a wall of MOUNTAIN on the right, and a driver that doesn't realise he's scaring the shit out of you! Well, actually, it was pretty cool, but I did have a few moments of "WTF!"

Coromandel to Auckland via the 309 road

After having a good night sleep in Coromandel, our end-goal was Auckland, where we would spend the Friday working in the SilverStripe Auckland office.

From Coromandel, continue to Auckland, with some sidetracks, like a death-defying trip on the 309 road, which is absolutely worth it and empowered Dan to try even more rally driving, we returned to the target of our journey and reached Auckland office around 3PM.

As promised, here is a collection of the photos taken in random order:

Auckland to Wellyingtun