Tuesday

After a very slow start we awoke to a lovely sunny day and realised e could see the snowy peaks in the Tongariro national park from our holiday bach window.

So we loaded ourselves in to the car with our warmest clothes and drove the hour and a half to get there.

It was lunchtime when e drive by the chateau so e to that as a sign e should stop and snack whilst enjoying the view of one of the three big composite (and active) volcanoes.

We did see huge steam plumes on Tongariro on the way home but otherwise the world stayed stable for us today

After lunch we got a lift pass and went to a cafe up in the ski area where esther bumped in to a couple of school friends.

On the way home we stopped at lots of places for photos and saw a very old info film about volcanoes which must have been fairly modern looking in the 1980s when it was made.

Then this evening we sent esther to bed early for further recoveries (she is feeling much better today)  and I’ve spend over an hour not managing to download photos of my camera due to a very old network…

No idea if the video clip above will work. Can someone let me know!