Auckland has lived up to its mediocre expectations and has been our base camp for the past few days. Both of us have purchased smaller backpacks and smaller sleeping bags for the remainder of the adventure. We've both shipped home loads of boxes containing gear that we will not need anymore. From now on, we live out of our 35 liter packs stuffed...

Leaving Nadi's airport was a little sad, but I was so excited to go on to New Zealand. Its kinda cool to have met people in Fiji that just came from NZ. They all had great stories and I could not wait to start mine! Flying to NZ only took about 3 hours. I got off the plane and a little nervous going through customs, I bought a one way ticket and...

So my first real night out in NZ I met up with a girl form my Hostel Liz and some of her friends, we went to a Mexican restaurant to celebrate. Why? Well when I met Liz she was talking about Fiji and I told her I just came from there and showed her pics. She ended up buying a ticket and is going island hopping, one of the other girls just finish...

W ten weekend zaliczylam najwieksze miasto w Nowej Zelandii, Auckland. Nie przepadam za wielkimi metropoliami, wiec nie moglo mi sie podobac tak jak moje poprzednie wyprawy. Dobrze, ze chociaz pogoda mi dopisala i udalo mi sie znalezc pare ciekawych miejsc. Przylecialam w sobote wieczorem i ruszylam prosto do schroniska, zeby zostawic bagaz. A t...

Another day, yet another bus. This time the first bus trip was nice and short through some spectacular scenery of a tropical gorge to a car park where we met with another bus to transfer to Waitomo Caves, where we planned to go cave tubing! This led to another 2 rather cramped hours on a much smaller bus, to reach the Waitomo township where we q...

Sorry to have taken so long. There is no excuse we have just been plain lazy. Continuing... We arrived in Rotorua to sunny skies and geysers galore. Rotorua is famed for the geothermal activity that goes on there and you can't go for a walk in the park without almost stepping in a puddle of bubbling mud. However, this novelty comes at a price as...

Well, I've been a bit **** at keeping this updated haven't I!! Needless to say I've been up to a few things since I left Thailand, the whole East Coast of Australia to be more specific. Haven't got much time so this is kind of Oz in a nutshell. Got hideously drunk on my first night over there so got off to a pretty good start! Went to a bowling ...

"Aw, Hell! The Northeast! It's times like this I curse the fact that we live in French Polynesia." - Peter Griffin I think Peter had it right when making this statement because nothing really happens in French Polynesia. I flew into Pape'ete after a tailbone-numbing trip, which lasted 28 hours or so from the time I arrived at Philly Internationa...

Well now with the South Island behind me I hopped on to the Inter Islander ferry for the journey across the Milford Sound from Picton to Wellington. The crossing took about 3 hours. On arrival at Wellington was meet by Andy and the kids, Clare was in Brisbane on a girls weekend! and was transported to the best hotel in NZ Chez Ladd, for an eveni...

So, I have arrived in Auckland. The journey was long all the way from the UK 30 hours agao ( or so). The hostel looks good, and I am goingt o stay here for about a week I think. Get over the jet lag and see what to do next. YAWN!

Today is going to be my last day in Auckland. I have changed my mind about how long to stay becuase I have got bored of being in the city. There isn't much to do. The weather is good...really hot yesterday infact Spent the day with two American girls from California, we went to the Victoria Park Markets and it was a pretty typical market. Go mys...

meeting more japanese than new zealanders!

El dia 19 de junio se nos "paso volando", y nunca mejor dicho! Nos subimos en el avion en Tahiti a las 7am y nos bajamos seis horas despues a las 11 am en Auckland, pero del dia 20!!! Quien decidio que los dias empiezan aqui? Por el momento estamos en un pequeno estado de "choc" con Nueva Zelanda. Aqui todo esta hiperlimpio. Los coches te ceden ...

Well, after a short flight and the loss of a day, which is exteremly confusing sometimes, we made it to Auckland. Nothing much to report on except that we've book our campervan for the next six weeks and are picking it up tomorrow - excellent. Some pictures out and about in Auckland are attached now too! More to come soon.... :-)

We spent our first day on the North Island investigating Wellington.  We went straight to the Te Papa museum which I loved.  The ground floor looked at New Zealand natural history - the extinct Moa bird, the extremely gross insects they have and of course the kiwi, along with the cause and effect of the volcanic activity on the island.  They had...

So Jen and I have finally made it around the world to Auckland. The travelling was quite bad as the flight to LA took 9 hours, when we got to LA we had to grab our bags and recheck them in within an hour and a half, which we thought was great as there would be no hanging around until we realised that Jens bag did not make it from London to LA, s...

Oh my god...How stupid one can be....please take my advise and never ever do what i did the eve of my maiden flight to NZ!! Foolishly i thought a couple of 'harmless' goodbye drinks with my friends in oz wasn't that bad an idea..a couple wont hurt!!! YEAH RIGHT!! Bearing in mind i had to catch a bus at 5.50 in the morning to Sydney airport...Wel...