Admirals Landing Auckland

... the tickets we had bought the first time we were in Auckland for us to go up to the top observation decks. As we were just about to walk into the tower an 80 y.o. man was doing the Jump of the side. He was still alive when he was unclipped at the bottom and had a big smile. We got in the high speed lift to take you to the top and they were glass fronted but also had a glass panel in the floor so you could see lots as we whizzed up. The view from the upper deck ...

... i was pretty rubbish at this but they nicely involved me and i got to kick the ball. First kick was fine then second time i missed then third time it ended up in the pond - so as you can imagine i wasnt asked to kick again! However the one time i managed to catch the ball i was running so fast that my body couldnt keep up with my feet and i was running straight for the goal - as you can guess no one ever covered me. But i just couldnt do it and i landed flat on my face ...

Ok so I used Bex house in Auckland as my home base and I would come and go from there to all the other places around New Zealand.

Well I started, as you know, in Tairua at the beach house and then came back to auckland and I went to Rotorua and when I came back it was Halloween weekend! That Saturday Sophia's dad ( soph is one of bex's friend and mine too now) invited us out on his sail boat in the morning and early afternoon. It was a ...

... of a phone, however, this can take such a long time. We are really looking forward to catching up with another family who moved from the Midlands a couple of months ago to get any advice that they can give - it's amazing that the smallest snippet of information can make such a difference.

All in all a good first day, lets home that this will continue.......................

... down State Highway 2 listening to Coromandel FM and I arrived in Auckland a couple of hours early (see Dave see!). To killl some time I went shopping. Westfield is a huge shopping mall North of Auckland where Kmart rubs shoulders with the likes of The Body Shop, Spec Savers, Borders, Whitcoulls (which sells WHSmith products) and my personal favourite Giggle. Mostly I noticed the handbag shops. There were a LOT of handbag shops. Is this a New Zealand ...

Hi there,

If
you like to hike on Milford Track we already have 2 tickets for 13.-16-
Dec. 09 including 2 transports for 382 NZD. This is the usual price you
book online for the walk on doc.govt.nz.
Unfortunately we ...

... other photos , but my flash didn't work, I do hope Marion has some. Singapore - a few snaps from our City Bus Tour -was an excellent way to get an insight - we loved the Orchid Garden, and more importantly we loved the Orchid Garden Shop!!!! The Dinner /Raffles trip was mediocre, the Chinese meal that was part of the tour, was poor, but Raffles lived up to everything we had imagined, the Singapore Sling yummy, -the price was included in tour, I am going to try and ...

... a bit of starting, the petrol gage just sort of swings up and down, increasing when you accelerate, the boot doesn't stay open unless you hold it and it leaks in the rain. This was enough to cause us great amusement in the first few weeks. Then the passenger door became stuck and we couldn't open it, which meant we often climbed in through the window! Then about a month ago, someone tried to steal it from our secure underground parking- absolutely no idea why! Apparently it was ...

... Wellington with Jackson today. I couldn't make up my mind so i rang her and let her make the decision. "Ok, I'll be there in about 5 hours". I said good-bye to Jackson who would later be in Wellington that day and went and found a park to lay down in to help kill the hours. A game of cricket between the locals and a visiting Taranaki side helped pass the time between small naps but after 5 hours i couldn't watch another single ball of the most boring game on earth. I headed into ...

... like' through a forest carpeted thick with fallen pine needles. We emerged at Ocean Beach - a 4km long stretch of white sand flanked on either side by green forested cliffs. We got to Whangamata (a long straggling and single-storey resort town) and set up camp at Wentworth Valley, a DOC campsite 7km south west of the town, but in beautiful surroundings. DESTINATION AUCKLAND - Saturday 31 ...