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Auckland Slideshow
Auckland
Travel Blogs from Auckland, New Zealand
Kia-Ora!
This is a top pick! ... own path briefly, then leave you just as quickly to venture on to other things. Over the last few days here in Auckland, I've shared some great experiences with people of many different nationalities and cultures. This has occured simply as a result of ...
Quoth The Raven
This is a top pick! ... noticed how similar 'everything but the girl' is to 'nothing at all'"? "Yeah". -- Everything But The Girl "There is a house in New Orleans, They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, And God, I know, I'm ...
Continuing Our NZ Experience in the North Island
This is a top pick! ... breakfast we walk down to the car rental company to hear what the damage will be! Check out our remaining flights at Air New Zealand before walking up Queens Street to the highest tower in the Southern Hemisphere, The Skytower. On the way back we look at ...
A bag of chips and the last bus home
This is a top pick! ... was quite disturbing as the reports came in on the TV warning of the imminent danger. The final floor was dedicated to New Zealand’s part in various wars and several monuments of rememberence as always a chilling reminder of the bad points of war ...
Heading South
This is a top pick! ... say 'I'm glad' to leave Auckland is probably the wrong choice of words. Despite the bad press and comments from a lot of people, Auckland's not a bad city. There is such a diverse, widely varied culture here. You only have to take a short walk up ...
Back in the UK for Christmas
This is a top pick! ... on the board at Kat's school invited us over to their home for a Honika meal. They had a really cool house over-looking the Auckland marina, while the chef cooked us a meal and the nanny played with the children, we sat around and learnt about the Jewish ...
A week in Auckland-again
This is a top pick! ... city it's ok and I like to place-well to visit. It was also great to see some of the people who were still in Auckland, Simon and Neil,Claire and Caroline,Scott and of course JackieG. I was only planning on staying for a few days, but Esther had phoned ...
Land of The Kiwi
This is a top pick! ... we'll be sleeping in for the next 3 weeks. South America, I suppose, is just that little bit less trodden by travellers than New Zealand, and we loved it anyway, and so glad we went there rather than following the conventional "Round The World" trip, had ...
Kia ora Kiwi Land
This is a top pick! Hello NZ, we are here!!! It was a painless 10 hour flight from Singapore. We will rent a car and spend about a week travelling around and hopefully wind up in Wellington. Entries might dry up for a while as we will be living and working now but we will ...
Jobs, Freaks and Krishnas
This is a top pick! Well it's been a while, and so I think it's time for a new update. I have been in New Zealand for 2 months now and since arriving I have been doing all the marvellous things that you have read about in my previous entries. When it came time to settle down ...
Back to the Airport, Then on to Hong Kong!!
This is a top pick! Since our flight to Hong Kong didn't leave until midnight we stayed at the hostel until 4 o'clock watching TV, reading and playin around on the internet in their livingroom. Then we got picked up by an airport shuttle that took us to the airport. We ...
Kiora, nope not the orange drink, hello...!
This is a top pick! ... country as possible in that time. Its always a bad sign when you fly into an airport and its pissing down with rain. A great welcome to New Zealand!! We hoped that this wasn't going to be a bad omen! So first day in NZ, the start of what was going to ...
The end of the line for our kiwiland adventure
This is a top pick! And so we're back where we started. It is almost 9 months to the day that we arrived in Auckland ready to start our adventure in New Zealand and now it has been and gone. It has been 9 truly amazing months that we will never forget. We've met so many ...
Touchdown Auckland
This is a top pick! Literally it is just a brief touchdown as tomorrow morning we fly to Queenstown to kick off the Kiwi leg of our ...
As You Like It
This is a top pick! ... of them were palm trees) brought the mythical English forest to life. Complemented by a wonderfully funny production from very talented actors (who disguised their Kiwi accents perfectly) this was an ideal way to spend a summer evening in ...
Flashpacker? No my zip’s just gone
This is a top pick! ... (the shame dirty boots). Thankfully that was about the worst of it and after another scan of the bags we were officially in New Zealand. Another mishap was that our bank card didn’t work in any of the ATM’s and therefore we were ...
Winged Migration
This is a top pick! Having been back in New Zealand for a week Hendrik and I decided to try out the temporary open-air cinema set up in the Viaduct Harbour. Tonights screening was a documentary called The Travelling Birds, also known as Winged Migration. It is the first ...
Worst February weather for 40 years!
This is a top pick! We arrived in Wellington with 3 days to spare before our ferry to the South Island. So far the weather has been absolutely shit and we've not been able to do much except shelter in our van and wait for a miracle (that sadly hasn't arrived yet). ...
The Big 'BB' Meetup!
This is a top pick! ... as I was eager to meet them. At some point we had all agreed that it would be a good idea for those arriving in Auckland around late September time to meet up, considering all the help, support and laughs that had been shared on the website over the ...
A Big Day Out
This is a top pick! ... the air conditioning unit filling the coach with eau de chocolat milk. The trip did give my time to reflect on my journey around New Zealand and knew that I would certainly be back here again one day hopefully in the winter or early spring to see the ...
Back to the Land of the Long White Cloud
This is a top pick! ... would check me onto the flight to Auckland, which was due to depart in just over an hour and a half. Despite having entered New Zealand from an international location twice before without an onward ticket I was now being told that there was no way I ...
jobs werth
This is a top pick! ... by the parents fees. Kat was asked to stay on for another six months today. Kiwi news now and the New Zealand government has agreed to the filming of parliamentary sessions. One politician virtually cried when a reporter described him as ...
26th September 2004 Auckland to Bay of Islands
This is a top pick! ... morning 6.30am as i'm heading up to Paihia, this is in the Bay of Island up north. The Northlands is the warmest part of New Zealand. I was met outside my hostel by our bus driver for the day "Chops". Jackieg was there waiting to take Johnno to the car ...
Happy to Be in A Land of Regular Joe
This is a top pick! ... over the Tasman Sea (named for Abel Tasman, one of the early explorers and credited with discovering Tasmania) I land in Auckland, New Zealand. This is the land of two large islands that people have been raving about since I spoke to fellow travellers in ...
Losing a day and official biohazard
This is a top pick! ... I am slowly getting used to being back in a western, English speaking country after the months of Spanish. Its true what everyone says, new Zealand is the closest country I have found so far that is like England. I am looking forward to escaping the city ...
Goodbye NZ!
This is a top pick! 28th February 2005 Last ful day in New Zealand - cant beleive where the time has gone! Drive for one last time over the harbour bridge, return the car, and just wander lazily ...