Quest on Mount Auckland

For every country I enter, I'm planning on writing some basic history and random facts to educate u cats back home. I always love learning about different cultures. I feel that if you know the history of a country, it helps you develop an understanding of its culture.

Brazil,

Capital - Brasilia, population 2.3 million

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Kia Ora, today we have sadly come to the last leg of our journey around New Zealand with our new friend Marcel. As the great Jeremy Clarkson once described his beat up old car he bought in Florida and drove to New Orleans, the car had a few issues and definitely wasn't the most comfortable thing but I would have rather have done it in our little...

+Written in retrospect+

Hey,

We spent the weekend with Anna and Paul, went for breakfast the sunday morning before Simon left to fly home for his interview. We went to Kenzies in Newmarket (very expensive - but very nice!).

I walked Simon to the bustop and we were both surprised how upset we got when it came to saying goodby...

So it was all a bit wierd when we arrived in New Zealand because we basically left Buenos Aires at 9am Monday, and then 13 hours later (10pm Monday in Buenos Aires) we arrive in to Auckland at 2pm Tuesday! Crazy mixed up time zones!


So, we headed straight from the airport to the "Spaceships" office to collect our campervan which was...

Tena Korua! (hello to a group of people)


Its been a couple of weeks since my last blog now as i have been busy non stop since arriving in New Zealand AKA Aotearoa, translated as 'The land of the long white cloud'. In the last 13 days i have travelled most of both the north and south island of New Zealand starting from Auckland.
Auckland, North Island, New Zealand stevenmoody

Hi all! You've guessed it! I've arrived safetly in Kiwi Land! I had a great last few days in Kuta in Bali with the best sunset i've seen in the island and i got to meet up with Amy and John from home which was a lovely way to spend an afternoon and as usual felt really natural rather than weird!

I keep forgetting how far I am until I look...

Our 4 hour bus journey to Auckland was accompanied by dark ominous clouds which led to the inevitable downpour. We arrived at the Sky City bus terminal and made our way to the Hostel (YHA International). How we wished we had held onto those coats and scarves as we walked to the hostel. It was literally pouring and not much fun lugging the backpa...

We are now in Auckland and cannot get over that we are very much on the other side of the world from home. My dad use to come here for 3 hour business meetings to just turn round and go all the way back to Denmark again and this scenario would take a whole week! We were just discussing at our evening meal that now a days we are so lucky that eve...

While we are here in Wellsford we're doing various day-trips. And todays expedition is underwater... "Kelly Tarlton's" is an aquarium in Auckland where the founder and creator (a dude named Kelly Tarlton) re-designed a stretch of sewer-pipes to function as an underwater world for visitors to enjoy. It may not be the biggest aquarium in the world...

And so after three months and 7438km, the tour came to an end. We rolled out of Thames, over the last one lane bridge, through quiet countryside and then suddenly into the clutches of the eight-lane Auckland motorway. We'd probably still be on it if it weren't for the road map supplied by Darren and Jackie on Fiji (thanks guys!). It was with som...