DAY 2 cont Out tonight for a number of beers. a mini pub crawl. stopped on the way into town and then on to pub with 2 for 1 offers. finsihed up drinking whiskey till 2.30in yet another bar. spent most of the time with lisa and grant, a nice couple from wigan and spent the rest of the night chatting with monika. steve was busy chasing the frenchies, a theme that sticks for the duration of the tour. ;-) this was followed by a long walk home, entertaini...

DAY 2 - AUCKLAND TO PHALIA, BAY OF ISLANDS well the tour all kicks off today. catch the coach, seems a reasonable bunch on the tour. half the people have already been touring for the last 13 days and only have 2 days left. they are telling us how great the whole tour is, all boding well so far. we cross the harbour bridge, the bridge is pretty unimpressive appart from the fact they added extra lanes by clipping them onto the edge of the existing br...

DAY 1 Hello everyone Well the journey from basingstoke to auckland only took 40 hours. The flight to sydney actually went really well, i even managed a bit of sleep, dispite having some kid watching films all night laughing out loud and shouting to his mum, cause he still had the bloody headphones on. I managed to see loads of films, well actually i only saw 1 film all the way through. but i did catch the first 10 minutes of about 6 films before f...

Visiting my mum, and a little golf.

One of the best festivals around - fancy dress