We caught the subway back to city station again as we wanted to mooch in the shops, however there are two malls leading from the station and we got confused and ended up lost in the wrong one! We abandoned our shopping and went out to mooch at the st andrews cathedral government buildings, city hall, war memorial etc and then discovered how to get back to the shopping centre! Went mooching and purchasing! Caught subway to china town. Everything was shut there, f...

We were up at quite a reasonable time considering we had hardly slept! We got free breakfast which was great, however we were unsure about it at first as we had read that noodles is often on the menu! It was toast and biscuits! Better than nothing and at least we liked it! Once sorted we set off to explore! As it was dark last night when we arrived we had no idea what to expect as we stepped outside! It was humid in parts of the hostel, but that was nothing in c...

We were going to stay at the hostel until it was time to leave for the airport but they wanted to charge us $5 each to stay for about an hour so we left it and went to subway for breakfast instead! It was a lovely clear day but it was very windy! We stayed as long as we could in Subway before facing the wind again and heading to the park to call home! It was Mark's mum's birthday today, well in NZ time it was anyway! Time flew and before we knew it we were on th...