This is the start of the main journey around New Zealand and I am to take in as much as possible. We headed up to Mount Eden which is on the way out of Auckland, like the City itself, I found it a bit underwhelming, the highlight being a brass plate which is inscribed with various points around the Globe showing the distance from point to point. I am about as far away as I possibly can be from good ol' blighty and the time difference at present is 11 hours. We c...

Hi Everyone, The flight over to N.Z. was uneventfull apart from an Aussie I sat next to but i can not comment on that within this format! I had declared four points on the embarkation card and was dully stopped at Bio-examination Control. My mosi net, shoes and boots were all dissinfected and my boots actually got a wash which was a real treat! Having had all my baggage scanned I was passed as clean and let loose on the Kiwi population. Six of us shared a lift ...