I bid farewell to Taj, Shadow, and Stephanie, then my friend Billy took me to SFO where we had dinner and drinks before my flight. Got a window seat (thank you Billy) and slept quite a bit. Landed at the crack, dropped my stuff off at my B&B, and headed out to be a tourist. I went to a botanical garden and then walking all around the city. The w...

Yesterday I gathered all my stuff and headed out on foot.  I've discovered this to be one of my preffered modes of learning a city.  My pack was quite heavy, so the hills here in downtown were a great workout.  I found a big red backpacker's hostel building across from the Auckland City Library, near Albert Park.  Have taken ...

I had spent several hours, earlier in the week calling around to check on prices to send my box home to the UK.  Unfortunately, the company I had decided on had apparently misquoted me and it would now be a hassle to get the box to them, and as their price was not much cheaper than I had been quoted at the post office I deciede that convien...

April 26th, 2007 - Made it! Sylvia Mall April 27th, 2007 Drop car off, skytower, random night out!

We had a wonderful nights sleep. The bed was so comfy and the birds didn't wake us up in the morning for the first time in two months. Robert slept until about 9:30AM, by that time I had showered and was having some tea. I was talking to Florence and John about what we could do today. They had the day all planned out. We left the house about 10:...

We left South America on 4th December and flew out from Santiago airport late on in the evening. We had enjoyed our time in South America but were ready for a new continent and a new challenge. The flight lasted 13 hours, almost entirely over the Pacific Ocean. During the flight we crossed the international date line so arrived in New Zealand in...

Time for our final blog entry of New Zealand. Not too much has happened since our last mammoth entry so i guess the purpose of this is to update and add some more photos to our burgeoning collection. When we left you on Sunday, England were being whooped in the First Test, the sun still hadn't shone continually for more than thirty minutes and i...

How to do newzealand in a realy short time (north and south island), in a camper van! New zealand- totally gorgeous and very lord of the rings indeed but only a million times better when your standing there for real looking at some of theee most stunning scenaries and breathing in the freshes air,ohh take me back please! started + finished back ...

We are in our last country and it feels surreal. After travelling all the way around the world we are back in Auckland, where we started it all 11 months ago. Auckland is not the greatest city we have seen but it feels good to be back in an English speaking country and in the first world. However, we do not enjoy paying prices almost the same as...

The first year in New Zealand is over, and we're heading home for the Holidays.