We landed in Auckland at 4.30am on the 28th of February, after leaving Santiago on the 26th. It was only a 12hr flight, so not too sure how that works. But none the less it was good to be in NZ. Finally we could talk to people freely. Don't get me wrong, Central and South America were fantastic. But there's something to be said for being able to...

Time to bring everyone up to date again.  Made it back to Samoa on the last day of October.  Ray met me at the airport and we went straight back to the village.  Found it a little harder to adjust after being in the US.  Really miss friends and family a lot.  This is also a very slow time in Samoa.  School ended for...

Hoorah! Here at last! As i was really too jet lagged to appreciate Auckland I thought I would use this entry to pass on my thoughts and first impressions of New Zealand and the Kiwis!!! 1. Immigration This was an immigration experience like no other!!! We put on our landing cards that we were planning to stay for 2.5 months. I thought that looke...

We then headed back towards Auckland. We stopped off at the massive Sand dunes and went for a walk along them. We camped up for the night at Pukenui again. The following morning we drove on to ninety mile beach for a few photos and then headed on our way south, stopping off at the historic Kauri Kingdom. Kauri is a type of tree that is very very...

The starting point of my African trip. To access the various entries in this travel blog please click on the links below in the table of contents.

Highlights: - Seeing James and Karen after 25 months. Lowlights:

New Zealand! When living in Germany that is exactly the place on this planet to visit, that is furthest away from home. The name already has something exotic in Europe and how much better can it get than stepping out of a plane after about 25 hours and entering the "most beautiful end of the world"? New Zealand had been on my radar for quite a w...

and how is everybody? Forgive any mispelling as the feckin keyboard i'm using has all the letters on the keys rubbed out so it's trial and error at the moment! sorry for not mailin for so long. I'm in Auckland, got a decent enough job here and am suposed to stay until the beginning of augudt but gettin a big sick of being in the city when there'...

mwahahahah tis very sunny and warm here... we thinks its not like this at home eheheh! after 13 hours of turbulence we got to new zealand.. feeling slightly shaky!! we havent done much yet apart from shopping and sleeping.. we're off tomorrow on our bus tour up to the bay of islands... new zealand seems beaut so far but all the girls are wearing...

We made the short - half hour - trip back from Orewa to Auckland and what a difference! The place has been taken over by Lions, its like being in the UK, just red everywhere the place is really buzzing its great. We got booked into the hostel ok (this is the one which cancelled my individual booking earlier in the trip) to find it still being fi...