Travelling and Cooking in Miss Sunshine, New Zealand and Super Easy Crepes

The past few weeks I’ve been traveling with Mia in “Miss Sunshine” around the South Island New Zealand. When I came up with this idea a few months ago I was super excited. With the eyes of my imagination, I could see out beautiful bonding moments, how we sit together covered in a blanket watching a sunset, admire beauty of the nature. Then I told few people about my plan and I heard that I am such a brave woman. It made me think that maybe I’m missing on something and I started to wonder.

The day came, we picked up Miss Sunshine, Mia got super excited that she can sit next to me in a car and… the most awesome road trip started! This tiny girl loves to travel! She gets super excited with each stop. When we see something beautiful she says “wow”. She loves sleeping in a van and eating in it as well. She tries to talk to me, so we kind of having proper conversations, even though that I cannot understand her. We were sitting covered in a blanket watching a sunset with the difference that I’ve held hot coffee and her hot milk.

It’s not a piece of cake, that’s for sure. I am the only parent around so I have to take care of all the needs, hers and mine. I also want to take pictures of everything around, but it does not seem to be a problem for Mia (ok, yesterday she refused to let me hang out with sea lions,I had literally 2 minutes). She sleeps in a car on a road and when we’re walking, she just doesn’t care about me taking pictures, so I have to accept her “do it fast or don’t do it at all” attitude. I admire her tolerance toward me. I know what I like and I want to stop in places I like for a night. So whenever we get to a free camping and I don’t like it, I’m going somewhere else. Mia is totally fine with it, as long as she gets banana or a book or she can have a nap (choose one). She helped me not to freak out when we got stuck in a middle of nowhere with no reception to call help. She was so happy and chilled, running around and singing that it helped me realised that it’s just a random situation, nothing scary or problematic.

I have no idea how we managed to create such an awesome creature with Tomasz. The other thing is that she makes me stop and really look. The few times we stopped somewhere on a road, so I can take a picture. Usually I’d take it and go to my destination point. But Mia said “no, no, no!” (seriously). She wanted to stay in a place longer, walk around and explore it. How cool is this! It made me stay longer and explore. I have a feeling that this lady is teaching me the art of slow living.

I do cook a lot in Miss Sunshine. I like cooking and I like eating good. But I also stop in small cafes located in villages or tiny towns we pass. I had the best smashed avocado with poached egg sandwich in a whole world and then Tried to recreate it in my van. I do not have much of equipment or spices, but you can create something delicious out of nothing. One day I made these creps. Mia loved them! She kind of preferred when I spread a raspberry jam over, but I enjoyed them with yogurt and fruits more. The recipe is so simple, that you can make it in a van. I had little left so in the evening I rolled some cheese and ham inside and it was our dinner 😀