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| Our New Zealand Adventures |
Our trip started with Isabelle's First plane trip! I will post some tips when travelling with a baby in another blog, But it was only a short flight from Australia 3 hours so a few little sleeps for her and we were fine! We started in Auckland, not knowing where we could get organic produce on our arrival, we compromised (we often buy conventional on our arrival at places if we cant get our hands on Organic food straight away!) From Auckland we made our way up to Lake Taupo where we were to meet Hamish's family for a few days of camping, we also found our Organic Food supply, and an Op shop for a few plates, some knives and forks and a big salad bowl.
Now having never been camping with Isabelle before it was pretty interesting! At night we would put her to sleep in the pram and then move her to the porta cot. This worked a treat until she woke up and wouldnt settle in her porta cot, she just wanted to snuggle with her mum! Can you blame the little one! She was in such new surroundings that a mums cuddle was all she needed. So for the most of our trip she actually co-sleeped with us. I will write more on that in another post!
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| View from our house In Mahia (about an hour south of Gisborne in the North Island of New Zealand!) |
For our dinners we often keep it very simple when Travelling, a simple Salad made from local ingredients is the easiest way to eat when travelling. Corn was in season and we ate sooo much of it! It's interesting a lot of people are shocked when we eat Raw Corn, we often just say try it its soo sweet why would you cook it? and when they try it they are pleasantly surprised at how tasty and sweet it is!
We didnt have a blender with us either for the first week so we couldnt make our normal Nut milks for breakfast and green smoothies. So for breakfast we would have some raw muesli and some soy milk. Lunch I would have some local organic bread with some salad, Hamish would often have a huge salad. Dinner would another big Salad, and I often had some cooked Barley (Travelling while breastfeeding and not having access to our normal food supply I often eat cooked carboyhdrates - Hamish is raw though). And Fruit fruit fruit! Natures energy snacks.
I will post some recipes we used when traveling on another post.
Hamish had a sneaky water ski too in Lake Taupo ( thanks to family with a ski boat) But Lake Taupo is actually a crater from a volcano - weird when you think about it! From Lake Taupo we headed to Hawkes Bay!
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| Hamish water skiing on Lake Taupo |
When leading a raw lifestyle it is amazing how many of our friends and family were interested in what we eat. So I will post some recipes we spoke to people about in another post! Everyone loved Hamish's raw pate, and simply raw sushi is so easy to make for people at their homes!
To be honest we didnt really have the time to check out if there was any reall strong raw movement going on in New Zealand. But we did find some great health stores which we frequented often.
Chantelle's in Napier New Zealand is a must to visit. Raw of not.. the food was delicious and wholesome (I feel in life that we need to be flexible and there are times when eating some cooked food is not going to kill you! unlike all the threats you hear in the Raw Community, you are not going to end up in hospital after eating some cooked food if you have been raw for a year!)
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| Chantelles! Wholefood and Eatery Napier, New Zealand! |
Hawkes Bay is known as thethe fruit bowl of New Zealand, so every where you look you will find stores selling local fruit and Veg (I dont think I have seen so many fruit and Veg stores) and the quality was fantastic! Fresh and straight from the grower it cant get better than that!
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| Local Fruit and Vegetable Shops. There is one about every minute! |
One of our favorite places that we visited was Mahia! Such beautiful untouched Paradise. Hamish and I both got a few surfs in as well which was nice!
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| Isabelle playing on the beach in NZ.. just look at the scenery |
So that was basically our trip to NZ.. we had such an amazing time. I will post some more in detailed posts about travelling with a baby, raw recipes we use when travelling, Co-sleeping. And I am also going to post some information about feeding Issy and the information I have found and what we are doing!
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