A man who travelled New Zealand promoting last year's international yet bizarrely local game craze Pokemon Go got off to a sweet start on his latest "Trainer Tom" tour.
Possibly the country's most dedicated Pokemon Go fan, Tom Currie quit his job as an Auckland barista last year to spend two months travelling the country in search of every creature available on the smartphone game.
He was back in Whangarei this week to start the 2017 InterCity bus-sponsored two-month tour, a reversal of last year's travel itinerary, which started in the South Island and ended in the Far North.
And this leg of his game-crazy tour will partly be funded by a good old-fashioned cake stall.
Getting on board the Pokemon Go bus was Kamo baking equipment business, Kiwicakes, with owner Sandra Boston making artful, Pokemon themed cupcakes for the 'Poke-stop' positioned outside her shop.