AUCKLAND BEER FESTIVAL 2008 the day dd not start off as planned, with the weather being so terrible there were even doubts of whether or not we'd even go to the festival of beer! also after missing our bus, a day lazing in the apertment looked to loom large on the minds of myself nick n tom! however after being given the number for a taxi and the oppurtunity to dry up, we were in a much more optimistic mood! :) upon arrival we were greeted with a beer mug and ...

Sorry about the lack of updates recently but that's only been because there hasn't been much to update on! After a surprise phonecall from Madison last Friday (8th) we had to rush down to Air New Zealand and have training for a job that started the next day! Basically, we were working in the call centre from 2pm-8pm everyday for the next 9 days. We were taking calls from people who's luggage had gone missing and it was Air New Zealand's fault...so we had to deal...

tom fell off a chair the other day...... no one was hurt, however the outcome was a high level of hilarity :D

Hello all - Tom again. This is going to a short entry, as not much has happened since thursday. Sorry that no photoes of raigintoto island are up yet, we keep forgetting the camera at the cafe but they should be up shortly. Friday was a whirlwind day were we went from having jobs to no job to having jobs again. We have since started work in air new zealand call centre, we 'help' people who have lost there baggage. We are here for 8 days, 2pm-8pm, which should be...

yesterday we hit up ragitoto island, which is just off the coast of auckland, got some proper mint pictures, however at first glance the island just looks like trees and pritty baron!!! so with low expectations we arrived at 10 in the morning after a brief boat trip out! being the keen moutaineerers (obviously very wrong spelling!?) we headed up the volcano, after none of us had walked anywhere for the past year or so it was very tough but when reaching the top t...