The Adventures of TinTin ... Concluded
Well we've sold our van!
We arrived in Auckland and deiceded that the simplest way to sell TinTin would be through the Backpackers Car Market. So we payed our 65dollars and parked up at 9:30am to sit out the first of our three alloted days. By 10:30 we had sold TinTin. By 12 we had managed to squeeze him out for a test drive and by 4:00 we had the results of a painfully stressful mechanical test. Fortunately the only things highlighted were a leaking water pump and a few minor things that we had already told the new owners about.
Now in NZ you have something called a legal check which most people have done before purchasing a new car. This shows up any unpaid debts, speed fines, parking tickets etc on the car. It also shows the mileage (or should that be kilometerage) at the time of each WOF (MOT equivalent). The guy who we bought TinTin from told us that the clock had been wound back a little ... fair enough. It turns out that it had been wound back a whopping 130,000 kms the day before we bought it. We think thats a lot more than "a little". The big hairy beast.
So we are now TinTin free and back to the backpakers routine. Our rucksacks seem to have gained a lot more wait and lost some space ... hmmm.
Here are a few piccy's of TinTin ...


Its new years eve tonight. Itis going to be weired to think that we will be celebrating a whole 13hours ahead of the UK. We are going to celebrate with some fun Swedes.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL !!!