Well, two highlights I remember from your neck of the woods are Hot Water Beach, where you need a spade to dig a hole in the sands, and then you can wallow in a delightful hot bath, and you could – though this may no longer be possible – swim out to some mussel encrusted rocks and peel off your supper material; and a little further south, in Tauranga, where there is a campsite on the right hand side just before you cross the river/estuary leaving town going South. It has a fantastic thermal pool, where once again you can sit and wallow. This is especially good at night when the air temperature is low.

Clearly, New Zealand isn’t limited to wallowing, but I found something deeply soothing about it.