I really could've killed the guy in our room last night. He nearly choked himself to death snoring, and woke himself up. Snorers should be banned from hostels. Or they should all be put in the same room. I've slept in the same room with mates who snore before and like to hold their nose - that wakes them up. I couldn't get to sleep to start with and then this guy was snoring so it was around 1.30am when I got to sleep. And we were up at 6.30am! Tired. Just afte...

Up early for our 8am Stray bus out of Auckland to go north to stay in a place called Paihia. Our driver today is called Gollum. He hasn't explained why yet. Absolute bonus on the bus...free WiFi! We're not getting a sim card for NZ because it's too expensive and they give a really useless package for Internet. So at least now we can contact family for free on the bus. Another cool thing was being able to Skype message Dan at the Stray office and book in a free da...

One of the worst nights sleep ever. For starters we can hear everything on the streets as they have paper for windows. We're in a dorm, which fortunately is only a 4-bed, and this girl came back to the room at about 2.30am, shortly after we'd started to get to sleep. Then she got up again at about 4am to leave! She must have had an early flight. Then the other guy in our room started snoring. I was so close to throwing my cushion at him. I didn't have anything he...

Up bright and early this morning - 7am! Checked the news etc and unfortunately the train still isn't running. I rang an airport transfer company, but the earliest they could take us was 12pm for our 5.35pm flight and it'd cost $44 (£30) each! The main thing is we want to get there early and much less about the cost. The roads are clear now so we needed to get there while we could. Paul had already offered to take us a couple of times but we wanted to try make ...