We went to bed at about 9.00pm last night hoping to get a decent sleep before we had to get up. Everyone in the dorm was really noisy up until midnight so when we got up at 2.00am, we didn't make any effort to keep the noise down and even turned the light on to check we had packed everything up. We walked down to the bus station to catch our bus to the airport. The flight was fine and we managed to have a sleep. We arrived in Auckland and went to pick up our h...

After a sleepless night and the first cold one of the trip, we were up at 6.00am this morning as we had to have the car back at the hire place for 10.30. We found our way back into the city easy enough and got the car back in plenty of time.Before we checked back into the hostel, we went to the Library for a few hours to use the free internet and returned to the same hostel for our final night in Australia.We had a sleep in the afternoon as we are leaving at 2.00...

We picked up our Hyundai Getz from the hire company at around 11 am to find we'd been upgraded to a Mitsubishi 4x4 which might sound good but was far too big really, an automatic, trams with silly road rules, £1500 excess (no matter who fault an incident was), and liked to drink fuel. On the flip side it was really nice to drive and would be good for the 400+ miles we were going to be doing in the next 24 hours.En route out of the city we must have got lost thre...

Surprise, surprise we all woke up very rough and with the stench of sick throughout the 16 bed dormitory room. We had to move hostels as we'd booked into a cheaper one, a bit of a shame really because we'd really enjoyed our stay here.Feeling terrible, and in no state to walk with our backpack for half an hour we caught the free tourist tram around the city to our new place. We arrived to check in hoping to head straight back to bed but was told our room wouldn't...

It was our last day in the Discovery Hotel with the French lads, its been a really good place to stay, defiantly our favourite in Oz (although not much competition).We managed to pick some closes up from the "Australian famous" Victorian Markets and went for a continental style lunch with a wine, really nice and not badly priced either. Tour buses and trams run round the city throughout the day between 9 am and 9 pm for tally free so we spent the aftern...