23 Hepburn Auckland

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After leaving J and M we travelled to Auckland the weather was a bit ****** so after visiting to hot beach and a night in Coramandel
we went straight there as Dave our friend from the 1st door had arranged a mini tour of Auckland ...

My first few days in New Zealand. Auckland is like every other big city-nothing special, but I stayed in a nice hostel with nice backpackers. Watched my first Rugby match All Blacks(NZ)-Springboks(SouthA), climbed Mount Eden and had exiting first days.

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... getting car sick and getting really hungry we finally made it to our hotel in Ahipara, just missing the sunset. The place was beautiful - it had a huge deck that overlooked the water, which is the beginning of 90 Mile Beach. We quickly made it up to the restaurant for yet another amazing meal.

Because we have only 11 days and 2 countries we had to keep moving along to Bay of Islands. Looking back I would have ...

... have to participate in a Maori funeral. That was not the experience I was looking for!

Sue the owner was really nice and kept us entertained as it rained by showing us how to make
three minute chocolate cake in a mug! A very exciting and tasty afternoon!

We spent that evening doing a twilight encounter tour which according to Lonely Planet is a
once in a life time experience. I hadn't bought into the hype of it before we did it but it was really enjoyable ...

... very laid back about having people stay and welcoming them in, which makes for a really nice atmosphere. When I first got here there was me, Mark (one of Stu's long-time friends) and Stu in the house while Tony lives next door with Amy, his girlfriend. A couple of days after I got here, Tony's friend Simon arrived and he's now living here too. Mark left to go travelling for a couple of months just as Stu's cousin Carly arrived to stay and then Dom, who works for the ...

Tuesday 10/03/09 Auckland - New Zealand (Still) Temps Air 24°C I left the cyb@study at 01:00 and when I passed the Crow's Nest bar next door, which is usually quite reserved, with the only noise to be heard being the sound of the either the resident or guest band, but tonight it was in full swing, so I decided not to go for a late tipple, free or not. Today we decided to visit Parnell & Newmarket as well as go back to the Domain to visit the museum ...

... e-mail & text messages or make (very) long distance -- for a price.   The food and the service were fabulous. The vegetarian/vegan meals for Mark and Merina arrived without incident (and were good too).   We had a scheduled stop in Sydney for refueling.  We all had to de-plane and proceed through security (yet again) before we could proceed upstairs to the gate for re-boarding.  The airport was clearly not ready for that number of people to deplane; it took forever to ...

... Waitangi was at least some attempt by the British settlers to confer some rights and privileges to the Maori people. This spirit of reconciliation in New Zealand survives today – the Surgeon-General’s health warnings on cigarette packets are printed in both English and Maori so that all people will know that “smoking harms your baby”.

We’d just got into our kayaks and started paddling up the Waitangi River when a ...