North Island, New Zealand
New Zealand - Land of the Rings, the volcanoes, the mountains, the sea, the sheep, the kiwis, the rugby, the adventure activities; I've encountered all of these in my first week here but have learned that there's much more to the country than just that.
I arrived in Auckland on a cold, wet winter's morning in July and was thinking it might have been a bad time to come here, but I've since been proven wrong. Winter in the north island on a bad July day is a bit...