Hier ein paar Fotos meiner Hinreise und erste Eindrücke von Auckland sowie ein paar Bilder, welche ich vom Skytower aus geschossen habe.

Merry Christmas from Auckland! We arrived in NZ Christmas Eve after missing our SA flight (long story but we kinda got the dates mixed up - thankfully the Airlines were happy to help at no extra cost, phew!!) Trish and Darryl (and baby Davin) welcomed us into their home where we met up with Rich and newly pregnant Marian! We had a fab few days...

It's amazing - it takes nearly five weeks to explore and entire country top to bottom and then an hour and a half to fly back to where you started, but that's where I am in rainy, windy Auckland. I do wonder what it would be like here in the sunshine, but I'm not convinced I'm going to ever find out. Never mind. Yesterday afternoon I went to a w...

well that got you attention.. not quite that exciting although the earthquake was 4.9 on the richter scale ! there was alot of damage apparranlty ! didnt feel a thing ! mini tornado was a little scary ! not much else to report really. had some great nights out in auckland .. dont seem to be able to pass a shop without buying anything.. so far i ...

After my 3 rainy days in Cairns I flew back down to Sydney to be met by gorgeous sunny dry weather. I made the most of my 24 hours in Sydney by getting a bus to Bondi Beach (not the nicest beach in the area by a long way!) and walking along the coast to Coogee. Passing a bar someone called my name and it turned out to be an American couple I had...

So South Island is thus past tense. After swimming with Dolphins I made my way up to Wellington feeling a little sorry for myself as I was now all alone in the world having left my bus of friends behind and coming down with something nasty. This fact and that I now had only about 100 pounds left to get my through the north island means I did not...

After spending the last four and a half months traveling with Luke and Dave I am now back to going solo. If you can call staying in hostels with loads of other backpackers really going solo. In fact of this whole trip I've only spent two weeks in Japan by myself. I left Dave at Auckland airport where he caught a connecting flight to Vegas for a ...

Wow, i am finally in New Zealand and with my family. It seems as though it would be proper to state that the city is absolutely beautiful and I would love it if I Lived here, sadly, seeing as I don't, I will just have to enjoy it. The Transportation in the City is wonderful and I feel as though it is as it should be for New Zealand's Green and C...

A quick stop for refuelling. Good duty free shopping in New Zealand

Hi everyone, Our last week in the North Island of New Zealand has been eventful and we're now ready for a big rest. This was meant to be a relaxing week but we will have to save it for Oz next week. On Sunday we arrived in Auckland - it was strange to be back in a big city! Rich & Fee picked us up from the airport and took us around the tourist ...