hello everyone hope your all well since i last spoke to i think i was in wellington. since leaving there i went napier for just the one day,then i went up to muont maunagui. spent 3 days there. nice place and the weather was good for us so we got to walk and chill down by the beach. the first night we got there we went down to an irish bar. what another bloody irish bar!!! we watched the lions v bay of ilands and of course we won.had a few drinks as you do and anna got speaking to this guy who owned a club in taranga.so we ended up there and did'nt have to pay for a thing!!! i like freebies!! great night but paid for it severly the next day!! also went to the local spa while i was there. i'm getting quite used to these spa's. next back to auckland. went up the sky tower. the veiws were fantastic!! you could see the whole of auckland. later that evening we met up with 3 of the bus drivers from magic and had a laugh and got pissed!! the next day we traveled up to the paihia,the bay of islands. a beuatiful place. nice beach and scenery as soon as you stepped out of the hostel. i celebrated my birthday here. during the day we went quad biking on these monster 500cc bikes. great day. later in the evening went out and had dinner. went to a fish restaurant. and yes i had oysters!! celebrated some more at the hostel bar afterwards. you must be all thinking all this guy does is get pissed all the time!! well to be honest yeh your right!!! mum keeps telling me that i look like i've lost wait but if i have at this rate it will be back!! back in auckland now and flying to fiji tomorrow. well i will definately come back to new zealand. it's a great place and the people are really friendly. so much to do and to go and see. i suppose the best for was kaikoura swimming with the dolphins and franz josef where i done the ice climbing in the glacier!!! absolutely fantastic! but it's all good. i've put some more photo's on aswell. more drunken nights out in n/z so get your eyes on them. bye for now and i'll speak to you in fiji