Rotorua: Eggy smells (not responsible - don't look at me!)

We spent 2 days in Rotorua, which is the hive of volcanic activity in NZ. It stank. Really smelt. Rotten eggs all the time. We saw mad stuff in a park including a 90 metre volcanic lake that had green bubbling liquid, steam and rust-red banks. The bubbles were CO2 and the liquid contained arsenic, amongst other things, and was 70 degrees!

After all that excitement I cooked up a storm - a full dinner of NZ green lipped mussels from the supermarket. All these babies cost about four quid in all! Yum!