Auckland, New Zealand
We arrived in Auckland with relatively low expectations; everyone we'd met along the way had only said bad things about it. Well, it just goes to show you need to take things with a pinch of salt because Auckland is such a cool place. OK, so there are lots of sky scrapers and loads of people but as major cities go, i really liked it.
We checked into our Base hostel and our room could only be described as a prison cell. With no windows and no room to swing a cat,...