Tuesday 16th February 2010 Straight through journey to Auckland from Paihia except for a quick toilet break on the way. We arrived back into Auckland at 18.45pm and got checked into our hostel Auckland Central Backpackers where we stayed last time. After we had checked in we popped to the shop to get tea chicken risotto tonight which looked really nice but tasted disgusting (That was my opinion Suz didn't think it was too bad but she wouldn't buy it again) the s...

Thursday 11th February 2010 Nice lay in this morning as we didn't have to check out until 10am as our bus wasn't leaving until 10.30am, destination Auckland. The bus was a bit late and didn't arrive until 11am but it wasn't full so we got a seat each. We drove for about two hours before stopping at a place for lunch call Matamata here is a bit of information for you about this place, as people were quite excited as some of Lord of the Rings was filmed here, ...