Addie before she had a name

For those of you who are a bit curious as to how the purchase of the car went down, here is a bit more info and a video that we took straight away after we purchased the 1994 Mazda Capella 626 station wagon! About 1 hour after this video was shot, we booked it to the airport only to find that Mike was not there. This however did not dampen our excitement: we successfully bought a car in Auckland, NZ and she has taken us all the way down now to Wanaka the tip of the South Island.


The night of 4–January when we purchased Addie from Mohammed who was the proprietor of Traveller’s International, a hostel just down the road from where we stayed at the Skyway Lodge