Firstly, it must be said that Auckland is a little dull. For a city that is. The problem is that it just doesn't have much to offer except for being home to the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, the hyperdermic needle they call the sky tower. After you've done that, there's not much else to do, except maybe take a walk to the harbour ...

Well we have arrived at our final destination, Auckland! Some people say Auckland is the real capital, not sure why though. It just seems to be this intercity rivalry, Sydney/Melbourne etc etc etc! I have to say I do prefer it to Wellington, it has a better feel to it. Not that I have been round touching and feeling everything though. It is anot...

Today was our last day in NZ. We took a ferry ride over to the island of Daveport. We were able to walk up a small mountain to get a 360 degree view of the city of Auckland. I think this place must be fairly busy during race season as it has such great views of the harbor! There was a disappearing military gun in the top of the mountain that was...

I woke to the sounds of the sea this morning - what a wonderful sound. A large Cruise Ship had docked in the night, lots of ferries coming in and out of the port and lots more street noise on a Monday morning compared to Sunday! We are getting an early start this morning, it is still a little overcast but we are hoping it will clear up as we are...

Juledag Jo. Vi stod op lidt for tidligt, men saa var der en herre nice morgenmad nede i restauranten! Der var baked beans, bacon, spejlaeg, kartoffel tingest, og der var ogsaa croissanter, muffins, frugtsalat, og ogsaa nogle vildt gode pandekager med sirup! Naa, men saa besluttede vi os for at tage til en oe der hedder Waiheke, far blev dog hjem...

Hello everybody!!!!!!!!! I'm very exciting at the moment because i'm awaiting Pete's arrival to Auckland! He doesn't arrive until 5.15am however so I have a long night ahead! So I arrived in Auckland at 3.40am on the 1st, I managed to sleep quite a lot on the plane which was good, what was even better was the fact that I was sat next to a woman ...

heyhey sorry about leaving it so long to do my travel blog, its just ive not really have much internet acces in our van haha! we got a van with a cow and a sheep on it in auckland and weve been down to rotorua, taupo, wellington and were now in christchurch. its been very different in the van, has been awsome becuase we get to do things we want ...

Departing Auckland, only 23 hours 35 minutes flighting time and we will be in Rome! Yay!

As the end of our trip approached, we had some time to kill, so we decided to go back to Tutukaka near Whangarei and do some more diving. Thanks for the recommendation, Jane and Tom, it was a great choice. We did two wreck dives, the HMNZS Tui and HMNZS Waikato. The Tui was a really good dive, lots of fish and beautiful jewel anemones, but we we...

While it was only in the airport it still counts -