Haera mai! So we need to fill you in on what’s been happening since our last blog which was in Russell. Sunday 19th We realised today that we have had the camper for a week now and we are still pretty high up the north island so best get cracking on the lower part if we are going to fit everything in. We both decided that although the Bay of Islands is lovely it was time to get going and start heading back towards Auckland in order to get to the lower half ...

Welcome back! So ill start where we left off following the last installment... Monday morning we departed Red Beach on our journey to the far north and ultimately Cape Reinga, ending up in Dargaville for the night. Not much to say, its one of those places you drive 'through' rather than 'to'. Only thing of note was Aimee 'walking in' on a slightly larger than average Maori woman on the bog! Needless to say Aimee was more embarassed than said Maori woman! Ooh, ...

Kia Ora Everyone! So after updating our blog on good friday (which was actually thursday back home - weird!!) we walked into the centre of where we were staying (Mangere - suburb of Auckland) and got some food before wandering back to the h9ostel. Did we mention the fact that apart from the odd food joint everything else was closed as apparently it is law here that nothing can open on good friday or they are fined by the police!! Not good news for us but gave us...

Morning all, Just a quick note to say that we arrived in (not so) sunny New Zealand this morning (at like 4:45am) so as the rest of the city was sleeping weve been uploading pictures. Apparently its good friday today which we had completely forgotten about so its law here that businesses cannot open (damn!). Looks like we shant be doing much today... We shall update this post later when weve actually done something interesting... Ciao for now and happy ...

Hi guys, So just a quick one to update our last few days in LA. So after a terrible night sleep on saturday night (first experience of dorms is not good..girl behind us snored all night and if that wasn't keeping me awake it was the sound of some guy vomiting outside the window..nice! Earplugs were quickly whipped out and shoved in on that note!) we took the free shuttle from the hostel to the beach and wandered down there for a few hours. Monday we decided to...