Kia Ora from New Zealand! We are having an absolute blast! We arrived in new Zealand last Thursday after being a little sad to leave Melbourne and arrived in Auckland to stay in a very central hotel near the harbour. We had a few days free before our tour so spent that having a look around and sampling the nightlife. Phil said that it was like Manchester without the charm, but we managed to have (lots of) fun none-the-less and did plenty of mingling with...

Hi Everybody or Kia Ora as the locals say... I arrived in NZ on 5th June to be greeted with wet and windy weather, a newspaper headline that said 'A World without Gays' and prison-like bed in a dorm full of young backpackers (oh well, some compensation then!). I'm not keen on Auckland, a city full of wierd people as far as I can tell including a guy in full leather playing the electric guitar on the street on Saturday night for no apparent reason. I wa...