After we dropped off the rental car today (after almost 5,000 km in NZ), we made our way up Auckland's Sky Tower to a height of 220 metres where we enjoyed fabulous panoramic views of the city and surrounding area.  We even witnessed some "jumpers" from the tower but managed to resist any urges to do that or use the bungy ride right outside...

After a birthday breakfast for my sister, I said goodbye to my family and they headed back to the airport. I walked around Auckland, and eventually stopped by the work of an old college friend, Chris, and caught up over a game of ping pong. On the way there I got a bit lost and the skies opened up and let out a torrent of rain which did not stop...

Hi everyone.  I'm booking the actual flight and accomodation later today.  Any divers out there are welcome to come on board but you'll have to hurry. Caio 

The flight to New Zealand was surprisingly the crampest and most uncomfortable yet but we did get to watch shrek 3 and spiderman 3! We felt a little like time travellers (i am the new Doctor Who in my tardis) due to crossing the date line - we left Santiago on the 12th and arrived into auckland on the 14th losing a complete day - madness! It was...

Hello guys, Sorry for the lateness of this first entry, the first few days have been just manic!!  Have been in Auckland for a couple of days now and things are just starting to settle down.  Set off from Heathrow at around midday thursday.  The take off was horrific!!  The wind was so strong the plane was rocking when it was...

Hello peeps. Well the conjunctivitis cleared up pretty quickly however, I had to wear my chunky bottle-top glasses for a couple of days...mmm, fetching. What's worse is that those lenses have actually been thinned down quite a lot, thank the Lord for contact lenses! Anyway, I was on the next Bottom Bus out of Dunedin on Wednesday the 26th. On ou...

So New Zealand comes to an end. What an amazing country. Definatley coming back some day. We didn't really do much in Auckland, we only had a day anyway. Just a little bit of shopping and sorting out the little odds and ends like sending stuff home before we flew to South America. Bye Bye NZ...

After a very bumpy flight and a little sleep we arrived to Auckland at 2am and made our way to Tracy's rellies place. After a bit of a chat we crashed (especially me as my tonsils were swelling and I was feeling pretty crap). After waking we headed into Auckland to pick up our hire car, went to The Moorings base and said hello to everyone then I...

Pyha... Det her bliver altsaa et hel del smaa korte tekster... Siden Claus er kommet herned, har der bare ikke vaeret tid til computeren. Saa det her er mest for at sende lidt billeder hjem. Historierne kan i jo ogsaa altid faa senere ;)

Where did 11th August go? We left Chile on 10th August and arrived in New Zealand 12th August. See you can travel into the future. First impressions, yep looks like England, the cars, the people, the roads etc. The only thing that surprised us were the number of oriental people. Apparently there has been a massive influx of Asians in the last fe...