Today we started our proper Kiwi Experience bus trip heading from Auckland to Whitianga. We left the hostel at around 8am and headed around the coast to the Commandel Province stopping for lunch in Thames before crossing some amazing mountains to a place called Cathedral Cove. Our bus driver let us out to walk to the cove which was supposed to take 45 minutes but either they can't count or they were estimating it for people crawling! en route to the cove we sto...

Once again we find ourselves back in Auckland for the night as we have just finished our "top bit" tour of the North Island. We left for Pahia nice and early on Saturday morning with the bus picking us up at 7:15am! After struggling out of bed we were soon on our way over the harbour bridge and travelling on towards the Bay of Islands, our destination for the next three nights. After a couple of hours on the bus we stopped off in a little town called ...

Well, we are back in Auckland after our mini tour with the girls before we head further up north for the first leg of our Kiwi Experience. We spent the few days in Auckland taking in the sights and sounds of New Zealand's biggest city. We spent much of the first day just looking around the city, popping into the shops and getting to know where things were. This included picking up about 20 different maps and money off vouchers for various things, about 19 of whi...

We arrived this morning and its trouser and jumper weather! It feels weird to be wearing socks and shoes! Thank god is isn't as cold as we thought it would be though! It's quite funny because we're used to the cold at home and we're just walking around in trousers and a jumper but the locals have coats, hats, scarves, the works on!! The girls are arriving this evening and we plan on heading for a big fat juicy steak! We're all a bit riced out!!