Järgmisel hommikul magasime nii kaua, kui meid hotellis olla lasti (check out on siin meie hotellidega võrredles üsna vara - kl 10) ja pakkisime siis jälle asjad ning väikese söögipeatusega liikusime lennujaama poole. Lendamises oleme juba täielikud profid - kokku on meil reisi jooksul 10 lendu ja see oli juba kuues J Kahe saare vaheline lend on...

Arrived in Auckland after a long stint travelling from Mexico to New Zealand via the USA (left Cancun, Mexico Sunday morning and landed in Auckland Tuesday morning). So for the first few days I was slightly jet lagged. For the first 5 days, I spent it in the YHA International hostel. A very clean hostel but had no atmosphere, but was ideal for c...

Kia Ora!  I am in Auckland, The City of Sails. We have been exploring Auckland and the surrounding Islands. I went with 3 girls from my hostel on a 12 minute ferry to Devonport, a quaint Victorian village. We did lots of walking and exploring the beaches and town and we hiked up Mt Victoria and had stellar views of the islands and the city....

Right now i'm waiting until i can check in to the Best Western President Hotel. I've been waiting for 3 hours and still have a while to go, it's incredibly boring. I won't have as much internet access if any over the next week so updates will be less frequent. Tomorrow i might be meeting Lizzie again while she's back in Auckland. Sunday i don't ...

What to say, what to say...My last few days have been filled with a lot of job searching intermixed with quite a bit of wandering around as well.  I spent Tuesday answering job adverts and emailing out my resume, which resulted in a couple of interviews yesterday.  One was with a temp agency, which was interesting - I've never temped b...

Once again I have had a fairly uneventful week, but that was to be topped by an eventful weekend of the bad variety.  It started small on Friday evening, I slashed my finger open on some broken glass as I tried to clear the sink for closing at the end of the night.  One and a half hours later, when I got back to the hostel,  ...

We travelled down from the Kauri Coast to Auckland and stayed in a campsite on the outskirts of the city. We celebrated our last night in the van with a pizza and a bottle of fizzy wine. In the morning we headed into Auckland and found our way in the busy rush hour to the familiar surroundings of the Backpacker's Car Market.  When we arrive...

Dec. 3, 2006   When we were planning our stay in Auckland we had made arrangements to stay with a third Couch Surfing host. However, he seems to have disappeared.  He works nights and now that we are here we haven't been able to reach him by phone or e-mail.  But we don't' feel too bad about that.  After four days and nights ...

For the past two days I have been more or less car shopping. Not that I really want or need one, but I still just don't feel like hitching right now. Maybe I'm not road seasoned enough yet, but nonetheless, it is a very interesting market around here. Allow me to begin with introductions. In NZ, cars need a WOF every six months (for older cars)....

Of this is heaven then I am blessed. Auckland is such a beautiful city. the nooks and the crannies. The parks are some of the best I have ever been to and the people are some of the nicest. I am Enjoying my self quite a bit. The understanding is of course being that Auckland is the most modern city I have ever been and that makes a big differenc...