Made it to Rotorua. We stopped at the little town of hobbiton. No need to explain this place, were the hobbits live. Fead some sheep and bottle fead some lambs, then had some lamb for dinner! We drank some hobbit beer, tasted like hobbit wee I think. It was only 1% alc, probably because the hobbits are only small! Arriving in Rotorua you can smell it before you see it. It is within a geothermal range so continuously pumping out sulhuric gases from the steam vents...

Well today traveled up from Paihia to check out further up north. The most northerly point of NZ was the destination - Cape Reinga. On the was up we stopped over to have a look around a forest and hug a tree...yes I have been hugging trees. Kuiri trees. These are the native trees of NZ and has spiritual powers and stuff. Havnt been overcome by anything spiritual, well not yet anyhow. We then headed up to Cape Reinga, which is a beautiful spot with a small li...

Hi everyone, hope you ok. I arrived in Aukland safe and sound. Flight across was fine, no delays no problemos. It was a night flight so slept through which was a bonous. Arrived in Aukland in the am and took bus to centre of town. Got to hostel and checked in with no problems. Aukland is quite a small city and not much to say about it realy. I know it sound dull but well its a city. And to me a city is what it is no matter where it is. They have a sky to...

Hi there everyone this is my first entry of hopefully many, I will try to keep it up. Had my first trip over to LA on monday mornin. Flight was not good. Got stuck on the runnway cos of technical problems, so sat on the plane at the terminal for three hours before we could even take off and then it was 10 and half hrs in the air. LA customs and baggage is a nightmare by the way for anyone planning on going there. it was like a cattle market, there must have been ...