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... die Autos recht haeufig vorzukommen (oftmals von den einheimischen (Maori-) Jugendlichen, die arbeitslos sind), weshalb dort ein Mann in die Autos geschaut hat, ob jeder seine Taschen mitgenommen hat, oder nicht.
Am Strand habe ich dann Lunch gegessen und dann habe ich mich im Hostel ins Wohnzimmer gesetzt und mein Buch gelesen. Ich habe mich ein wenig mit einem Inder unterhalten, was aber recht schwer war, da sein ...
Starting on the road in New Zealand
... details of most features as soon as we heard them. Anyway, the rain stopped eventually and we got everything checked out and got on the road—all the way to the grocery store (which was right next door the hotel we had spent the night at—we were getting to know the neighbourhood well. Got all our staples grocery order done, grabbed a bite of lunch and then ...
Pretty Paihia
... hoped to abseil down them the previous day but apparently it had been too wet - AT A WATERFALL?!). We were then whisked off to Paihia and to our pretty decent hostel there. That night a free BBQ was put on and we got to know the rest of the people on the bus with the hostel bar pub quiz (we lost, boo).
The next day we booked a day trip to Cape Reinga, the northern tip of New Zealand's north island and a sacred Maori place. The Maori believe that once they ...
The Gift Of Togetherness
... or Lord Of The Forest, in particular, is a notable kauri tree that is the largest in New Zealand by girth and the second largest by volume, and is estimated to be from 2,000 to 3,000 years old. Vic mumbles "nice tree" and we were off again.
Since we were now heading south back through Auckland we did the rel'ees thing again with Ian and Margaret and even had a chance to share a glass of wine with second cousins Jess and Sean (and his ...
Swimming with wild dolphins
Today I got up early, with all of my stuff ready packed to head back to Auckland later in the afternoon. I was booked on to a four hour dolphin viewing trip where you could pay extra to swim with them if we found some and if it was safe to do so. It is illeagal in NZ to swim with juvenile dolphins and calfs. To be honest I was a little sceptical about seeing them as you know how these things can be, but I had heard others talking about how cool the trip was.
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