Minus 5 Auckland

... incoherently due to lack of sleep and lack of decent food. (fish and chips, pad thai, vegemite sandwiches and a plethora of other new zealand foods which make no claim of having anything to do with nutrition...) you will pleased to know (as I am) that ...

... bridge (see photo), we can see another idiot bungying from the Sky-Tower in the distance. You wouldn't half know you were in New Zealand. After the trip I have to go up to the 'Awesome Adventures' office to pick up my itinerary. At the office a big fat ...

... kept using. The best work around they could offer was to sell me a ticket, which I could then refund tomorrow from New Zealand; minus the $55 administration fee of course. At first they insisted that I had to buy a one way ticket from New Zealand to ...

To be honest didn't do that much in Auckland coz there's not that much to do for nowt - it's a city type of city with lots of bars & shops (if only we had lots of cash!) Anyway, made the best of what we had. Stayed above a 24hrs pub (had a look into ...

... nice place to have a picnic. The inside held a number of displays including Maori culture, the natural world, and details of New Zealand's involvement with the 1st and 2nd world wars. The art gallery was pretty plain when compared to the likes of the ...

... of chips. That's like less than 2 pounds, so ridiculously cheap! After the Coromandel Peninsula, we stop at New Zealand's largest settlement, Auckland. It's so big by local standards (1.3 million), a third of New Zealand's population lives here. As ...

We spent Wednesday and Thursday in Auckland just pottering around doing a bit of shopping and sightseeing. First place we went to was the Auckland Skytower. We bought a ticket to the Main Observation Deck, and got a YHA discount. For an extra $3 you can ...

... pants (Angels and Demons) but we loved the experience anyway. With the sun still shining we headed north to the infamous Glaciers of New Zealand.  Now its sunny but man it is cold!!  -7 degrees at night, -3 degrees in the morning.  Even the ...

... resort, sorted ourselves out for the next days flight, ate and slept. After another early morning we took our short flight to Auckland (chicken foccacia) and took an easy shuttle bus to our clean, friendly hostel in the city centre. We're trekked to a ...

... time of year. On the Van front, it is the best way of seeing New Zealand, but it was bloody cold, minus 5 some nights, see photos. Also New Zealand is basically a lot of mountains and driving is a challenge to say the least, especially a van, also see ...

... and jumped off cliffs in the darkness of the caves. Terrifying.. but cool. Unfortunately, on arriving back in Auckland, Kurt concluded his New Zealand adventure. Luckily, we did manage to stop in at the Minus 5 bar before catching his flight back to ...

Those Early morning flights are a killer. We left Nadi international at 0320, dead on time and ariived into a stormy Auckland just after 7am. This flight was the most turbulent yet and we didnt so much touch down but bounce along the runway at breakneck ...

... . There's not much to say about my weekend apart from my visit to Eden Park on the Saturday night to watch Auckland play Waikato in the Air New Zealand Cup. I'd been promising myself that I would go and see some rugby, and when I finally managed it I ...

Apologies for being so behind on my blog - I've been having too mich fun in New Zealand.  I flew into Auckland on Tuesday evening.  That night I went to the movies since the New Zealand International Film Festival was going on.  I saw an ...

Last day in New Zealand – at least for the time being. Two key tasks for the day: 1 shoe horn all of my crap back into my two bags so that it can be squeezed onto the flight to LA 2 go for breakfast with the Ames clan and some other friends. Both ...

... us. Yesterday evening my friend Claire flew up from Wellington to meet us and she brought her friend Claire along who lives in Auckland. 3 effing Claires no less! At least there was no forgetting of names anyway. Last night we went to a bar called ...

... gas and so we didnt make a mess in the van.  we met a couple people on the site too and they were leaving new zealand so gave us all their leftovers like bread, noodles, stamps, foil etc!  We left Auckland today and drove to papamoa beach to ...

... !!! I couldn't believe it, naturally I had to sample a few different ones, just to be sure. Definitely my favorite bar in New Zealand. In Hokitiaka we visited some glow worms, which light up in the trees at night, it was magical, like something out of ...

... Learned: - Cheeks may feel frost bitten after an ice shot. - Best casino trips are when you walk away a winner. - Auckland is built on a hill, wear walking shoes (no we weren't that smart this day). Shout out to Tina for her Big Birthday ...

... 5 bar! it was really cheesy but we had a good laugh. they said everything was made of ice, but the floor wasn't. It was a fun way to spend my last night in New Zealand. So I'm leaving in about 5 hours-ish. I'll see you all soon. love, Pola