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We picked up a rental car this morning and left Auckland for a two-day trip to the north part of the North Island.  We wanted to see some of the countryside before meeting up with our tour group on Saturday.  Part of the excitement of the drive was the requirement to drive on the left:  my husband drives, I navigate and yell “Stay left” at appropriate intervals.   We not only didn’t run into anything, we didn’t lose any of the original dimensions of the car (w...

We waited for the peak traffic to ease (and one of Mel's superb coffees) before heading out of Auckland in the direction of Northland, the peninsula that stretches north from Auckland.  The trip up to Dargaville was pretty slow because LOTS of roadworks along the way - they seemed to go on for ever.  Furthermore, road-building in NZ is a bit different to Australia - they seem to use rocks the size of coconuts which are hell to drive over, especially in Steve the Starlet, we were a b...