After some relatively dilligent sightseeing yesterday, today we fell foul of the deadly combination of lethargy and apathy. Consequently there is very little to report! I think we'll both be glad to leave Auckland tomorrow... We're heading up north to Paihia in the Bay of Islands for three days and I don't think they have internet access up there so I'll have to report when I get back to some kind of relative civilisation! Yours (bored), Gem x x x

New Zealand is reknowned for its abundance of extreme sports and we've already had numerous opportunities to get involved here in Auckland. We could have bungeed off/abseiled down/walked along the skywalk at the Sky Tower today but we rejected all those lightweight pursuits for a spot of hardcore sock shopping. Oh yes. The temperature is a few degrees chillier here and I only brought two pairs of socks with me whilst Jim's are an international health hazard. We s...

With predictable Samways resistance to change, I'm having a rubbish first day in New Zealand. It's not fair to blame the entire country for it, especially as we only arrived here at 5.30pm local time. I'm just absolutely knackered from having no sleep recently and being cooped up on the plane over from Melbourne. And I am massively regretting not reading up on the country before we arrived here because I'm feeling a bit at sea, not knowing where anywhere is or wh...