Landed at about 11.15 am, now 13 hours ahead of UK. Collected car but no map book to be purchased in the airport and we had declined the offer of sat nav hire at $4 per day! Thankfully our phones work here on our UK plans so Google maps came to the rescue and we found our way to Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsular – about 2 1/2 hour drive, arriving at about 3 pm. The drive across country was lovely – reminiscent of the UK, but completely different too! Our apartment at Admiralty Lodge is a bit downmarket compared to the Anantara Riverside Hotel in Bangkok! First apartment we were shown to didn’t have a door on the bathroom! So that was rejected and the one we are now in has a few maintenance issues, but have got used to them now!
Fortunately the supermarket was open to 9pm (this is a Sunday) so we did a quick shop for salad for tea and then collapsed into bed after another 30 hour day.
View from our apartment