Hey everyone. Internet was expensive so i have saved up all my exciting news for now. The cook islands are absolutely beautiful, however we haven't had the best weather. There has been a lot of heavy downpoors which limits time spent lazing on the beach. I am also being eaten alive by mosquitos, the bites are so much worse than in thailand. I have about 40 from just 6 days. On thursday night we went on a hostel group outing to a bar called the staircase to watc...

Hey everyone. Apparantly this will be my last blog entry for a while. Thanks for the tip jen. Didn't go on the day trip yesterday coz i didn't feel very well, but felt much better today so i did it today instead. The weather was absolutley beautiful, couldn't have been better. We went to the auckland harbour bridge and walked underneath it half way, to the bunjy site and watched some people do a bunjy. Then we went over the harbour bridge to devonport, really...

Hey everyone. Sorry there hasn't been any news for a few days but there is nothing to do in auckland unless you have money. So i have mostly been reading. Another philippa gregory book if you are interested. Yesterday i went to the cinema to see 'what happens in vegas' which was very amusing but rather predictable. Jo got back last night and i had definitely missed her. Today we went for a walk round the harbour and then spent the afternoon in starbucks curled...

Hey everyone. Bay of islands was really beautiful. I went without jo because she couldn't afford to do it when i went. But i am meeting up with someone in auckland this afternoon, jo has gone to bay of islands today. I went for a drink with her last night when i got back (several drinks actually so feeling a bit rough today), and another girl called gemma from our room. Jo will be back in auckland on saturday. I did think that i woudn't cope being on my own but i...

Hey everone, i'm in the bay of islands for a couple of days. Very beautiful here. Before i got on the coach this morning i was chatting to a guy on the same trip and he lives in hitchin and went to school with jo's brother. What a small world it is. We got to paihia about lunchtime and this afternoon me and the guy from hitchin (called paul) went to the waitangi visitor centre. This was where they signed the treaty to unite the mauri people with the european set...