Well, its been a long and slightly boring week. I'm still in Auckland but leaving the city tonight!! Yeah!!! Sunday was a beautiful day!! The sun was shining and it was really warm. I even had on shorts and a t-shirt. For all of you thinking big deal, its boiling in England, let me just remind you that its WINTER here!!!! I had a few jobs to do in the morning (book accomodation and stuff for when Mum and Andrew come out) but once that was done I had al...

Well, I'm still in Auckland! Not really done very much for the last few days. I now have a NZ bank account (still trying to figure out how to get money from my English account into it though), in a few days my tax number will be issued and I have a postal address. I have moved to a different hostel as the one I was in was a bit too quiet and I was hoping to meet a few people around my age. The only problem with the new place is that I'm sharing a room with bo...

Just a quick one to let everyone know that I have arrived safely in New Zealand. I am actually on dry land, not floating about in the sea like the red dot on my map would suggest but I can't get the stupid thing to go onto the North Island!!! I landed at 3pm local time and am now in my hostel. I will be in the hostel for 5 nights so that should give me enough time to plan out my next few weeks. I had an early start this morning, I was up at 5.30am so I'm going ...

Well today is my last official day in Australia! Tomorrow doesn't count as my flight leaves at 9.30am. I have mixed emotions about leaving tomorrow. I'm sad to be leaving the land down under as I've had such a fantastic time here for the last nine weeks. I have met so many wonderful characters and had so much fun! I'm excited about going to NZ but also a bit nervous. As this is my last post from Australia, I'd better tell you how I spent ...

Just to let you all know, I've arrived safely in Sydney. I caught the Greyhound from Canberra yesterday afternoon and arrived in Sydney at 7.30pm. Luckily it was only a short walk to my hostel. I'm staying at the YHA at Central station. I am litrally sleeping in the station!! The YHA is built in the old goods in shed in the station and I'm sleeping in an old train carriage. I did book it for the novelty value although I wasn't banking on the tanoy announcem...