Discovered that earplugs and eyemask's are essential in the van as lots of light gets in because one of the side doors and the backdoor are both missing curtains! So we use makeshift curtains of towels and blankets (stolen off the plane from fiji), sounds also become very aparrent, especially if its windy, which it really is in new zealand. We couldn't decide what to do for the day so we decided to go to the zoo, definetly one of my favourite things to see i...

First day in New Zealand after our long flight, arrived at auckland airport at around 12 in the afternoon, to a welcome party of police clearly waiting for someone to get off the plane so they can nab them! After making our way through biosecurity, lots of security guards and laboratories, we discover we will be collected by the van company, so after a long wait and a small macdonalds (much cheaper than the uk), we were collected in a minibus containing mult...