Kiwi International

Welcome to the Davidson Family Travel Pod. We are embarking on a quick tour of Kiwi Land which will be the first International Holiday travelling as a family.......wish us luck!

We boarded the plane to Auckland at 11:30 local time (1:30am CST) and settled in for a 12 hour flight across the Pacific. I must say that we are being pampered with Qantas and their mostly Aucklander crew.  A pillow and blanket were waiting for us ...

... it was such a write off as we slept off the night before, we got two cracks at Monday, May 10, courtesy of crossing the International Date Line (for which we now all have shiny certificates) and which sent us from 11 hours ahead of the UK to 11 hours ...

... the time changes as we travel east.  We are now in the time zone of New Zealand.  It is the last time zone before the international date line.  So when he finally wakes up at 9:30, we go up to breakfast on the lido deck. We break all diet ...

... for 20 years. Think of a mobile home park but with charm and only lived in a few months of the year.  Anyway, Our new Kiwi friend, Ron, has us over to see his pictures.  While there, from a table outside we hear "Hey Ron, your new friends make ...

... sockets left for our campervan and it is filling up fast.  We continue to another camp site and settle in.  They also do Kiwi walks, but they are fully booked.  It is planned to bring Kiwis to Waiheke, so maybe one day we can see them ...

... outside of Dublin, in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Leary) at the Marina House, where we met three friendly Germans and one crazy Kiwi. We spent St. Paddy's day with our new acquaintances, watching the parade, drinking in the bars (that are just like you ...

... am on any form of international holiday that I can turn into a celebration (remember International High Five Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, International No-Socks Day, etc…), so this was right up my alley… How lucky could we be that there was ...

... .  I will then spend my last 4 days in Auckland shopping before the dreaded flight plan home that will see me crossing the international date line going back 13 hours resulting in April 18 2008 being the longest day in my life.  I will then be ...

... night we did go to a very nice catered dinner at a recreation center in town. It was for all new students, including international ones. We didn't know it was going to be such a big deal...there were lots of parents there, and many professors dressed ...

... in the world to see in the new year until 28th Dec 2011 when Samoa decided to hop over to the other side of the international date line and steal our thunder…thanks Samoa!!!! We celebrated the end of 2011 at Rhythm and Vines music festival where ...

... ;s ex-governor general Dame Silvia Cartwright was there.  She’s currently living in Phnom Penh and is appointed as an international judge on the Cambodia War Trial Tribunal.  Helen said hello to her after the movie – she had once ...

... ; and the back has the more jock-ish clientelle, a couple of personal trainers, hairdressers? etc. Its pretty much what an international school bus would look like, although no wedgies are being dished out just yet. The lure of the journey to ...

... 's money, credit cards, camera, iPod and nicest clothes. Basically he left him the passport and some dirty underwear. When the Kiwi checked the registration book in the hostel, the guy had checked in claiming to be Norwegian and not Estonian. Who knows ...

They say the world is getting smaller and that international travel is easier than ever.  Well, I think my mother would disagree.   The plan was that my parents would be flying into Christchurch on the morning of December 23rd for a week of ...

... in Auckland yesterday morning at 4.40am. We'd left Santiago on Monday 27th and so lost a whole day by travelling through the international time zone! It's so strange to think there was no Tuesday 28th September for the pair of us, how bizarre! The ...

... neighbours. Our chosen location was Gisborne – it's the first city to see each new day because it’s so close to the International Date Line and we quite like pushing in on things like that. So we set the alarm for 5:20am on Saturday to go to ...

... as compras): Casal das Cook islands; Hostel – Aro'a (Fruits of Rarotonga, local com snorkeling fantástico): Casal Kiwi. A senhora trabalha numa financeira. O rapaz é o Donald, MC da banda de Hip-hop Nesian Mystik ...

Woke up bright and early. Anyone who really knows me also knows that's on the par with a miracle. Must have been the international date line wreaking havoc with my normal "sleeping in" syndrome. So this is what it's like getting up early. After ...

... didn't even get to the see the Opera house, it was too dark. We hung out in Air New Zealand's lounge while at Sydney International until our flight took off. It was packed and a rugby match was on television so every guy was going insane.  We ...

So we landed in Auckland International at bout 6 in the morning on the 19th of Feb, weird as we left Santiago on the 17th. A 13 hour flight is not the most fun ive ever had but it wasn't all bad as i got sat next to a guy from Scotland who was a very ...