What better way to start a road trip from Auckland then to go to vegan heaven first? This piece of heaven is to be found in Grey Lynn. Looking at Tart Bakery from the outside, it is hard to guess that this cute little bakery is the most vegan friendly one I've encountered in New Zealand.
99% of their pastries, pasties and baked goodies are vegan. It was truly one of those moments when you feel overwhelmed by all the choices you have a as a vegan. Being a vegan, you forget how to make decisions food-wise, as the life of a vegan is pretty simpel in other food places; you don't have to choose because there are hardly ever any real options.
So anyway, there were loads of stuff to choose between so I ended up with three different things on my way out; cheesy bread roll, sausage roll and, AND, vegan freakin' donuts! Everything tasted like christmas in my mouth, but the donuts would have to be the winner as I haven't had a donut for years..
Prepared for a long journey, we headed off on to the highway and just drove and drove for hours just straight up to the top of the country. We started to chase the sunlight after a while as we really wanted to make it to the very top before the sun went down and when the highway all of a sudden turned in to what looked like just an ordinary country road I thought we weren't gonna make it but thanks to Guys excellent driving skills, we did catch the sun just on it's way down at Cape Reinga (even though we did had to run down to the light house, both because we were excited to finally be here, but also because we were scared that it would be pitch black in just a second)
It was the most magical moment ever, the wind was so strong that we could barely hear each other while, it was the most perfect sunset with hardly any other people there and just the thought tha we were as far north as you can go made the experience even more magical. The coolest thing is that two oceans, Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean, meet here and you can actually see the different oceans waving in next to each other.
We drove back down south on the scary road that was now resting in complete darkness, there are no street light either so the whole experience felt a bit scary almost, it was as if we were just driving into a horror movie.
But luckily enough we didn't. Instead we ended up at the most gorgeous little village by the sea, Mangonui, at the most gorgeous motel I've ever stayed at: Waterfront apartments. I totally wish we could've spent more time here, it made me want to live here and never leave.
The night ended with a few glasses of wine out on our private deck and we ordered amazing indian take away from Out of the blue restaurant, that weirdly enough makes the best chips, for just 5 dollars we had a whole bag of chips = happy Guy and Sarah!
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