I covered our arrival in New Zealand in the last entry, but I'll put it here short again; don't bring food here. We didn't get into any real problems, but got a little more attention from the customs people than we would have liked… Our plane arrived to Christchurch from Sydney at about 0.15 in the night, which meant that there wasn't any real reason to head out to an expensive hotel/hostel. We spent the night at the airport instead, first in the drafty arri...

OK, we've been travelling for about four months now, going through Nepal, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Australia. That's a lot of border crossings and going through customs. We've never had any problems before arriving in New Zealand and while those were not in any way major ones, they are still worth writing about. So first of all, Sini is a self-proclaimed fruit junkie, she's physically depended on her daily dose of fructose. There is no known cu...