Standard early bus trip again this morning which was fun! Haha. Today we were heading to Raglan! I was really looking forward to it, thought it would definitely be one of those places I wanted to stay a bit longer. The bus journey was fairly standard, slept most of the way. We stopped at a place called Bridal Veil Falls which was a really nice waterfall. Then we made it to Raglan! It was absolutely gorgeous, probably helped that we had amazing weather but the ...

Up very early this morning to jump on my new bus heading south! It was packed but managed to get 2 seats to myself which was nice. Bus journey wasn't that exciting really. Not sure what to think of the new bus driver, Chase, she's a little bit crazy haha. We stopped at a supermarket for lunch and grabbed some milk - back on the weetbix diet haha - and got some sushi for lunch which was awesome!! So cheap as well. Sarah, Annie and I ended up sharing some mini don...

Woke up this morning and checked into the hostel for another night rather than go through the hassle of packing lol. I had booked on to a free tour of Auckland that Stray offer for that day. We left at 10.30 and went to the Sky Tower which one of the girls won a jump off - it didn't look hugely scary, decided I wouldn't bother trying it lol. Next we went to a lookout point and a park and then for lunch at a pretty expensive bar where I had some nice wedges. Met s...

Everyone except Annie and I was up the next morning to do a trip further north for the day - it wasn't included in our passes. We woke up when they were leaving around 7 and then went back to sleep for a few hours when they had left which was awesome! We checked out around 10 and went for a wander to find some food. We chilled out on really cool bench things by the seafront for a while then went and got some really good wedges from a nice restaurant at the pier. ...

Up around 6.45 this morning to catch my bus trip up to the bay of islands! We were on a small bus, just 11 people which is quite nice. Met a nice girl from edinburgh called Annie when I got on. There was also Tom - the American guy from my previous bus, an English guy (Craig) and girl, welsh girl (Sarah), German guy (Boris), Belgian guy, Spanish girl, and Irish couple. They all seemed pretty nice! We stopped at some really big old trees that are meant to give yo...