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Travel Blogs from Auckland
City of Sails - City of Errands
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 …
Day 86 - Gisborne
18.51 - New Today was definitely an early day! We, that 3 of us, went to see the sunrise so we were up at 06.00 and it did not feel good I can tell you, especially since we had to walk up a hill to see it! It wasn't even all that good really but I think that was due to all the cloud being in the way. We watched it for about half an hour and then …
Day 87 - Pool
22.08 - All day the weather has been utter *****. It has been windy and raining an boring and yet again I have been confined to surf lodge for pretty much all day except to use the phone half a mile up the road. The night was very cold as yet again I was stupid enough to sleep only in my liner. The guys who I have been travelling with left this …
North Island
We arrived to a very sunny Auckland :) and decided it would be good to go up the sky tower to see the view (got a good discount with our YHA cards) and decided to pay the extra two dollars to go up at dusk. Our time was very brief in Auckland as we were picking the campervan up in the morning.
We picked the campervan up in the morning and …
What the HELL happened to the 16th September.....
OK work this one out we left Santiago on the 15th September on a 13 hr 20 minutes flight to Auckland New Zealand and arrived on the 17th September. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 16TH SEPTEMBER.....we just missed out on a whole day. It was dark from the minute we left Santiago to the minute we arrived in Auckland, strangest flight EVER!!
We had a …