Day 5. Foot update - Went to hospital and had a stronger drip. Doc recons I’ll have to have it cut open if there is no improvement overnight. Luckily I found out that as I’m English, I can use NZ hospitals free of charge because of an agreement between the 2 countries, phhewww! More Football Manager and downloaded poker tv shows on laptop. Day 6. Foot update - Went back for another drip and docs decided to cut my foot open as the infection ...

Day 4. Foot update - Agony, so stayed in. Definitely doing to the hospital in the next town (Taupo). Luckily someone with back pain took pity on me hobbling around and gave me some of his painkillers which worked amazingly well. He has given me some extras to keep me going too which was really nice of him. Played Football Manager for about 6 hours J Day 5. Foot update - Went to hospital and had a stronger drip. Doc recons I’ll have to have it cu...

Day 3. I managed to convince the docs that there had been minimal improvement to my foot and avoid hospital. Another drip and I was cleared to meet Duncs and catch the bus to Rotorua. Although I kept my foot up for the whole 3.5hr journey, it got worse and I couldn’t really walk. Because of this, I had to stay in the hostel from this point on. I watched The Departed (which is he best film I’ve seen in years, by the way) with a fella in our room wh...

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...