We left Raglan quite early and drove to Waitomo.� Danielle and quite a few others off our bus had been given activity vouchers from Stray when they bought their passes.� They had all decided to use them to go down the Haggis Honking Holes in Waitomo.� Me being me decided that I didn't want to be left out and signed up to go with them (even though, I'm sure I'm claustrophobic).� I was ok on the bus but starte...

We left Hahei beach and set off across country to the West coast.� We arrived at Raglan in the afternoon and checked into our hostel.� I decided not to bother with the surfing lessons, couldn't be bothered getting wet or being eaten by sharks (not a common occurance in Raglan but it is me we are talking about).� The hostel was pretty funky and chilled out, situated about 8km out of Raglan, up mount something or other.ï¿...

So, I'm back on the road again after living in Taupo for the last 8 months.� I left Taupo last Friday and travelled upto Auckland on the Stray bus.� On Saturday I met Danielle at the airport and began to show her the country I seem to have fallen in love with.� Sunday was a pretty chilled out, wondering round the city kind of affair then Monday we did the Stray city tour and went up the Skytower to watch the sun set over the c...

I got up and treated myself to a nice soak in the bath before packing up the rest of my stuff and checking out of the hotel. Mum had payed all the bills the night before but they still tried to charge me for a dinner I hadn't eaten. Someone had charged their food to my room!! I got a lift to the airport on the hotel shuttle bus and checked in for my flight to Auckland. I was flying to Auckland to meet up with Emma before we set off for Fiji. I was sad that Mu...

We left Dunedin in the morning and drove to Christchurch. We checked straight into our hotel, the Chateau on the Park, which looked really nice!!!  Once the car was unloaded and the luggage taken to our rooms, we had to return the car to the rental company.  We had lunch in town then jumped on one of the trams.  We got off at the river and went for a punt!!  Seeing as Andrew had spent half the day with us without too much complaining, he ...