Day 2 Up early for a free city tour we booked the day before. It was really good value as we were out for a good 6 hours and saw loads of things we wouldn’t have got to on our own. One of the guys on our tour did a cable-guided freefall off the Sky Tower (sicko) which was good to watch. We also looked around the Americas Cup yachts, went up a volcano, crossed the bay, had a pub lunch and picked up plenty of info from the guide. Apparently there have been...

Auckland Day 1. Airport security here is very tight and we got thoroughly questioned twice before we got to customs. We were specifically asked at the final desk if we had brought any shells or wooden masks from Fiji (which is exactly what we had in our cases) and we probably gave the most unconvincing ‘no’ they had ever heard. Anyways we didn’t expect our backpacks to have to go through another ‘Environmental x-ray’, so we though...