City Garden Lodge Auckland

Well, after a mammoth journey and alot of sitting, my sore bum, I made it to Auckland New Zealand!!! Spent about 5 hours walking around the huge airport of Hong Kong looking at expensive things and strange sweets, before getting the second flight, both lasted about 12 hours. I went through customs with no problems, unbelievably short queue and met Anne by the baggage collection, where unfortunately she couldn't collect hers! It was left in Sydney.... She filled out all the forms and as we cou...

HI Been on the road from Abel Tasman, Kaikoura, whale watch cancelled due to bad weather, Akorea, Twizel, now in Te Anua, going on cruise tomorrow, been snowing today, got nice cozy chalet to stay in though. Will need another 2 weeks hol when I get back, to recover, Ali x

Hello from the unofficial capital of New Zealand! Let us all take a moment of silence for the deceased Ketchup. Ketchup has served me well for the last few months and would always go that extra Kilometer for me. *tear* . Ketchup , I will remember you always. I think of you often , and fill with joy when I remember all of the good times we shared. May you rest in peace in junk yard heaven. Yes , Ketchups clutch failed and to fix it would have cost $1200 so he just had to go. From the town of O...

Auckland, which looks like a capital city but is not, and has the weirdest weather known to man. Dressing is a nightmare, because it's humid one minute, torrential rain the next, super sunny and warm the next, then it snows (i made the snow bit up, but you get the idea). We arrived here last Friday, after bidding a fond but not tearful farewell to Beadle, and were picked up at the depot by Ged, long-time gig and drinking buddy of Andy, who had kindly extended an offer of accommodation to all ...

Monday 31st December 2007 Well, I've arrived in Auckland after a long, uncomfortable flight (partly due to having a stinking British cold - I don't think I was very popular with my fellow passengers!) with brief stops in Bangkok and Sydney. Unfortunately my baggage didn't quite make it onto the Sydney - Auckland flight, so I'm still in my travelling clothes and feeling like a bit of a scuzz-bag in general really. Can't complain though, as I'm in New Zealand! I caught up with Abi at the airpor...

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So after a frenetic 6 week tour round New Zealand we really have begun to slow down now. As per the last entry, we decided to just spend our last week on the Coromandel Peninsula as opposed to trying to do this and the Northland and ending up seeing nothing at all. And we're really glad we decided this. Its been lovely. So we left Whakatane on the 10th after having a wee birthday pause for Lorna's xxth. What do you buy someone travelling?? New batteries for their head torch?? Well, there were...

Vrijdag 18 Juli Deze ochtend check ik uit de hostel. Ik heb geen plannen voor de ochtend en blijf hangen bij de hostel. Rond 11:00 heb ik afgesproken met Tom, een Engelsman van mid veertig, misschien in een midlife crisis!! Hij heeft een leen auto en met hem heb ik een lift terug naar Auckland geregeld. Als het weer beter was geweest had je op het meest noordelijke puntje van Nieuw Zeeland kunnen sandboarden maar met dit weer heeft het weinig zin om die kant op te gaan. Zaterdag komt Anne-mar...

No wiec podroz sie zaczela :) Lot ogolnie ok, poza malymi problemami typu ladowanie na Stansted, przez co caly lot opoznil sie o jakies 2h. Przez to wszystko nie zdazylismy na samolot z Sydney do Auckland i trzeba bylo przebookowac bilety, ale z tym juz nie bylo problemu. Jednak ten lot tez o malo co nam uciekl. Wiczor w Auckland strasznie meczacy ze wzgledu na zmiane godzin.12 godzin roznicy. Staralismty sie wytrwac jak najdluzej, ale ok wieczorem czasu lokalnego padlismy hihi:) Schronisko C...

Nach einer doch recht anstrengenden Anreise (Abflug 30/3 mittags, Ankunft 1/4 morgens) mit begrenzten Schlafmoeglichkeiten ueber Muenchen und San Francisco bin ich schliesslich in Auckland gelandet (in der Maschine nach San Francisco bin ich witzigerweise neben einem ehemaligen deutschen Deloitte-Mitarbeiter gesessen). Erster eindruck (6 Uhr morgens): Nieselregen, kuehl, typisches Herbstwetter - nach meinem Transfer in die Unterkunft in Auckland (City Garden Lodge, 15 min Gehzeit ins Zentrum,...