He made his way to the faucet in the corner, where he drank deeply of the sweetwater and peed, first removing from the sink a wet bedsheet with a large black-rimmed hole burned in its middle.
Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape wherewater is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.