Hello to all! We arrived in Sunny Auckland on Sunday 18th November and have been taking in the sights for the last few days. We have mainly been content to simply wander round the city and see where we end up, and what sights it has to offer, but we have done a few things besides getting lost! We have been to the Auckland Museum, which was about a 20 minute walk from the centre in one of the huge domains (parks to you and me!) We watched a Maori Cultural s...

Hello to everyone! We are just coming to the end of our time in Rarotonga, it is 23.35 on Friday night and out flight is at 4am - i should say our new flight as we are complete wallys and managed to get the dates wrong for our flight and should have flown yesterday! However the lovely people at Air New Zealand have sorted it all out for us and we leave when we had planned to leave for Auckland! Our time in Rarotonga has been amazing. At first we thought it ...

Hey guys, the cook islands is still awesome...it really is paradise!!! We have done a cross island hike which took 3 hours, there was 5 of us from the hostel who were like we dont need a guide and by coincidence we met a guide out there who probably saved our lives by pointing out the way!!! Was really good fun but very tiring!!! We have rented bikes as in bicycles to have a peddle round as i dont think our mums would have approved with the idea of scooters witho...

Greetings from Paradise!! We have arrived in the Cook islands at 6am local time after aorund 24 hours in several airports, but it is beautiful now we are here. LA airport was a nightmare queing up to show the same passport to annoying customs guards who murmer and scare you by asking 'whats ya buisness?' but hey!!! As we boarded to the Cook islands one woman said 'There are 2 queues here, 1, 2, 3, 4, quattro' (dont you just love silly comments!) We are still a...