Thursday 1st Nov 10:15am start for our free day trip around Auckland outside the hostel. On our coach, there was a dog called Ruby, keeping us amused for our coach journey! We made our way to Auckland Harbour Bridge to do climbing for free! Unfortunately Daniel couldn't take part of it due to him wearing the Flip Flops. It wasn't allowed for safely reasons. Daniel was gutted and just hung around till everybody finished their bridge climb. Lisa went ahead, climb...

Wednesday 31st October Got up very late after stressful and tiring researching for our N.Z plan. We made our way to the travel desk to enquire for the best way to get around New Zealand. They recommended something like Kiwi Experience or if we wanted freedom, campervan which was $69 per day. After working out, it seems that Kiwi Ex was the cheapest, which we took up for it. However, before we did book it, the staff told us to take up the free day trip around Auc...

Tuesday 30th October We left the hostel to go elsewhere, to be near the city. We found one which was bang in the city! We can see the Auckland Tower very well from the Hostel entrance. We decided to browse around the city, doing the window shopping. The city is very much like London, home away from home. We walked to the harbour to take pictures and to see the bridge. Before we left for travelling, Daniel's cousin mentioned that there is a bar called Minus 5, a...

Monday October 29th 5am wake up call to get a taxi to the airport for our check in, ready for 8.45am flight. We were very pleased to get out of the horrid hostel!! The flight was again good, free breakfast and drinks. The flight was only 3hrs and 15mins. Once we arrived to Auckland, we had no idea where to go as we didn't book anything due to no internet access. So we made our way to the visitor centre to book our hostel. It was a YHA hostel, based about 5 mins...