Early morning on the first day of our tour the four of us caught the kiwi bus for our first stop Mercury Bay, on route we stopped at the Kiwi office to sort out paperwork so Rich took the opportunity to do his early morning Mangina! ha then off for our first walk on route (looking through our itinerary there seems to be alot of these along the way), this one took us to Cathedral Cove - which is along the beach to where a cove has been eroded into the rocks - the ...

HELLO FROM NEW ZEALAND! We have now arrived!! Our first day we got set up in our hostel and checked what was around (Dave found there was a Nandos and Dominoes so he was ok!) the following day we checked ourselves onto a free tour which turned out to be fab, well once we'd actually got ourselves on there - our hostel told us the wrong time so we missed the bus but we headed up the road to the first stop and found them there. They were at the Auckland Sky Tower...