Woke up and decided to head and see the Kauri Tree's as they were on the way back down to Auckland, they are supposed to be massive. You couldn't really get that near to them so the photos didn't come out to well or show off how big they were. We walked around the forest for a while but it started to rain so we bolted back to the van. Brid decided to drive for a wee bit and something wasn't right with the van, you couldn't even get above 80kph, I thought I was Br...

We picked up the camper at 10am, we ended up going for the full insurance as only 20% of people in New Zealand have insurance. The guy gave it to us for next to nothing anyway so we weren't to fussed. We decided to head up north stopping off in Pahia for the night. We headed off from the rental place and it took us about an hour to get out of Auckland, it was a well complicated motorway. We finally got going and realised even though the van was a 3-litre it didn'...

Landed safely in Auckland , passed through security without any problems, i managed to get a longer visa than Brid so she must look well dodgy. Waited for the bus as the immigration guy told us the price of taxi's was really expensive. We waited out side the terminal for 20mins and jumped on the bus to the town centre, we had pre-booked a hostel already. We dumped our bags in our room and seeing as it it was 6 in the morning and we wern't tired we had a walk arou...