NZ +18: Rotorua and more Posh Living Quarters!

We are getting used to luxury accommodation now. Never again will we slum it bunk beds à la Queenstown Lodge! In Rotorua, we are staying at the Mayfair Apartments.

It's OK, I suppose. Do you want to see photos???

This is just one of our living rooms...



...and this is the kitchen...



...and this is our other living room...



...and this is our balcony.



There are also two bedrooms and a dining room and a bathroom and a laundry that you get to in a lift. And a spa bath. You get the idea. And we are staying here for two nights, so it's got to be good!

A quick glance at RotoVegas has revealed an interesting shopping centre...



...and steam randomly dispersing from holes in the ground...



...and some black swans, which were very friendly, but still believing that whole "they can break your arms" thing, I took this on zoom...



The most important thingI have to say about it so far, though, its that it stinks. To high heaven. Sulphurous pools issuing forth here and there give the whole place a deeply pervading smell of rotten eggs. I suppose we will get used to it.

Off tomorrow to do The Buried Village (Ye Olde Genuine Maori Village buried by Ye Olde Earthquake Explosion Volcano incident a few hundred years ago) and a luge ride, which apparently is very safe, but on which someone died last year.