Hello again! Quick apology for my last entry - thanks to the knowledgeable Nick Owens - Auckland is not the capital of New Zealand. It is in fact Wellington and I'm there now. It's very nice, much nicer than Auckland, but so small for a capital city! It's at the bottom of the north island, which I have been travelling around on the Kiwi bus for the last fortnight, and I'm hopping over to the south island in a few days which everyone tells me is much better than t...

Hello again! After what feels like days of travelling I am now in Auckland, the lovely capital of New Zealand. I have only been here for half a day so so far I haven't been able to form much of an impression of it, apart from it's cold (a nice change after sweating for a month in Thailand), the people really are friendly and go out of their way to help you (so far), and it's a lot more multi cultural and diverse than I imagined - it reminds me of London in some...