Well Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Its now only a month till i leave Auckland and get on my travels around NZ again so i thought i would put up a few pix from over xmas for you all to have a look at . And as u can see it consisted of rather a lot of alcohol........Waiheke island was a much needed break for a weekend out of the city, its only a 35 minutes ferry ride from auckland and covered in lots of native bush and beaches. I spent a whole day and a ...

So this is just a little quick update of my 2 day trip to Paihia in the Bay of Islands that i went on a couple of weeks ago. I went with a touring company called Magic (1 because they are a good tour group, and 2 it was free!) :o) My favourite word. We headed from Auckland really early in the morning and crossed the harbour bridge to head up north. We stopped at Warkworth to visit Sheepworld for a few hrs - which even though i have seen lamb and pigs before i s...

Kia Ora! Welcome to my first blog from New Zealand! Well its been 5 weeks since i landed in Auckland and have oodles and oodles to tell you all. You may not have known but i actually arrived at the airport at 7:30am on my birthday, which wasnt ideal i must admit but i didnt want to spend any more time in Los Angeles that i didnt have to so i hopped onto the next available flight and got here rather jet lagged for my birthday. I basically got very drunk in th...

OK! so its the last few days of my American adventure! As you can tell from the pix i pretty much went crazy with photos of Disney but it was the BEST! spent as much time here as we could, but a day really isnt enough to be honest - i really wish it could have been longer. Pretty much did all the rides we wanted too and it wasnt that busy which was a bonus. Faves were the Nightmare before Xmas house, Indiana Jones, Finding Nemo, Big Thunder Railroad, Star Wars ...

After the heavy heavy nights in vegas it was so nice to get to spend a couple of days exploring and sightseeing scenery again! The drive to Zion was pretty relaxed as we had 2 days to spend here - its the total opposite from the canyon as instead of looking down into the canyon, you are looking up - which made for easy walking! lol. I think i pretty much fell asleep the whole journey - only to wake up when we made pitstops at gas stations - oh and for lunch of co...