Last Saturday Chris & I hired a car & did a road trip around the east coast of the North Island. We started in Auckland & drove about 6 hours to a place called Whakatane, a small town iwth a couple of pubs in it. It was a Saturday night but the place was dead so we just had a few drinks & chilled with a few crazy New Zealand couples. The next day I drove a scenic route up the North East coast for about 6 hours & 420km until we came to Gisborn...

Im currently in Auckland, I arrived on Monday, weather is crap today, pissing rain outside, nothing knew but its fairly humid here. Its a huge city, it just keeps going for ages, its nice though, im impressd with it, its definetly nicer tham Wellington. I went up on the Sky tower yesterday, its meant to be the biggest bulding in the southern hemisphere, the views are spectacular, plus you can stand on the see through class at the top which is always cool, like on...