Today is such a beautiful and relaxing day. We are just sitting on wooden chairs in the centre of Paihia in the sun listening to a singer songwriter called Tom Francis playing lovely lovely music. It makes me miss Pontus as it's just the type of music he plays and I know he would have loved being here. It's the Farmers Market here today as well, so we got some blueberries and some apricots and a cup each of some newly squeezed orange juice and it was easily the ...

Okay, so a lot of things happened in the last couple of days, we've changed hostel, we got a job...and then we got another one! Let me break it down for you... The stay at the Pickled Parrot was alright, apart from the washing machine breaking, which meant we had to walk down to the centre and to a laundromat. We started looking for some jobs while we were staying at the Parrot and quite easily got one! The hostel called YHA, just a 5 minute walk from the Parro...

Today was check-out time from Verandahs and time to leave Auckland to travel north to Paihia in the Bay of Islands. But before we checked out at 10 o'clock we got a whole bunch of things sorted; We went through our backpacks and went downtown to the post office and sent some pieces of clothing each home, as we realised we had packed too much and that we won't use some of the clothes we brought. Luckily we got away with it a lot cheaper than expected! Before w...