Bay of Islands - Auckland - Rototura So after completly wasting my time in the Bay of Islands we headed back to Auckland where we had a couple of hours in the City - I went up the Sky Tower to see the view... it was nice but not a patch of the Sydney Sky Tower! One of the Aussie Girls Bianca did a bungee of it which was cool to watch! We left Auckland and headed to Rotorua, stopping on the way at "Hobbiton" for Lord of the Rings fans - it was a total l...

Auckland - Bay of Islands Apologies updates have been a bit non exsistent since I have got to New Zealand - it has been fairly action packed and I have not really had a chance to sit down in an internet cafe for a while! I did not get much sleep my second night in Auckland as it was "Big Day Out" in Auckland which is a massive music festival over NZ and Oz! (which if I had known was on I would have gone to) so the girls in my hostel rolled in around 3a...

Hello New Zealand I arrived safely - woo hoo I am getting good airport thing!! This morning was an averagly early start as as per usual I had not properly packed my bag in preparation to leave! I made myself my last Wake Up Hostel breakfast and caught the 7.55 shuttle bus to the airport. The plane journey was only 3 hours which was nice barring the "Auckland Junior Athletics Team" being aboard the plane! They pretty much took up 80% of the plane and d...

Bye Bye Australia Spent my time in Sydney doing lots of fun touristy things. I climbed the Bridge at night to awesome views of the city all lit up, went to Manly Beach - which is beautiful but a tad over crowded, went to a Spa at the plush Observatory Hotel where I had all manner of luxury treatments, walked around the shops and china town, went up the Tower where I did some crazy Australia 3D simulator thing, ate lots of Subways and smoothies, watched a 3D movi...

Sydney Arrived in Sydney yesterday after a long drive from Byron Bay... am staying in the Wake Up Hostel - which is pretty cool. Have one of the girls and one of the guys from the tour in my room, which is handy. Took a short wander around the area surrounding the hostel and brought some food to cook dinner for 4 of us! (The hostel has a kitchen) Then went to bed.... I think I was still recovering from Byron Bay. Today me and Nadine took ourselves on "Mel ...