Hello! Or Kia Ora, which is Maori for hello! Since I last made an entry I said I needed to go back to Auckland from KeriKeri as there was no work here. Anyways, we were due to head back and then the woman who owns the lodge told us there was a man looking for a couple of people to do some gardening work for him, cash in hand. So we snapped that up and got just over a weeks work from that. Then we found out that the Kiwi Packhouse work started not too long afte...

Napier (25th Feb - 1st March) The Dolphin Swim This was our last week in Napier. As nice as it was to stay in a prison we had finally seen and done almost everything here so it was time to move on and do something different. So for our last week we decided that we couldn't leave before we done the dolphin swim at Marineland. It was really good because you could book private swims that meant it would be only me and Kate in the pool with the dolphin for a half ...

Napier - (27th Jan - 24th Feb) Ignore the pictures on the side for now, It's not the actual places!So after spending the day in Taupo, we drove down to Napia in the morning to spend the next few weeks fruit picking! The prison scared the hell out of me at first. Stuck right on top of a mountain you don't see the prison until you travel up a windy hill, then.. you see it. Big massive stone prison walls and a massive wooden door that just says "Please ...

Taupo (25th January 2007) So we drove down from Rotorua in the morning to spend the day in Taupo before we had to drive further south to Napia to start fruit picking. (Not looking forward to working at all, I've got myself fully onto holiday mode). The backpackers we checked into impressed us right from the off. We got there and was told we could have an en-suite double room for 8 pound a night each! These backpacker hostels really are the places to stay. Th...

Rotorua (23rd Jan 2007)Today we travelled south from Auckland to a place called Rotorua. When we got here we checked into a backpackers and at 7 pound a night we got what we would expect. Very basic but no so bad for one night. Had a run in with some German plonkers (so arrogant the Germans are, not really suprising) then we spent the day mooching around looking at the place. Again it was roasting! We went to this adventure park thing called Skyline. Do...