AUCKLAND (JAN 13TH - JAN 20TH)

Hello everyone. This is the first entry in the diary. I've been here a week now so I'll try and do the diary on a week to week basis, depending on how long I've been in the same place. Our first few days was spent trying to get over the flight. However, Mike, who we are staying with for the time being, wanted to take us up North to a place called KeriKeri for the weekend. It was a 4 hour drive there and back. So having got in at 12 o clock on friday night, we woke up in the morning and got straight back into travelling. We visited a few beaches and done some site seeing. By the time we got back on the Sunday night I couldn't keep my eyes open!

Anyway, we went into Auckland City Centre on the Monday to have a liitle look around and just find our feet. We spent the rest of the week just doing the same really. The flight was still catching up with us and it was really hard just to stay awake in the evenings. We spent most of the week just going the beach and lounging around. There is a really nice beach just ten minutes down so i'm topping the tan up nicely!

Oh, and we've bought a car! It's a Nissan Bluebird. Its a cool little run-around. It only cost 400 quid. It will work out so much cheaper than renting a car all the time and I can re-sell it when we come home. We have also got a job starting next Friday (26th Jan) fruit picking. The pay is pretty good. Its not so much less than working in an office. Its in a place called Napier which is on the other side of the Island to Auckland, about 5 hours away. We will be there for about 3 weeks doing that then will move to a different place and do some fruit picking somehwere else. We figured its the best way to see everywhere instead of staying in the same place and being stuck in an office. We will stay in B&B's for backpackers, you can get a double room for 7 pounds a night! And they are really nice. The place we will stay at in Napier is called Napier Prison Backpackers. It's an old converted prison which should be interesting. I'll put some photo's on of that and all the other stuff soon.

That's about it for now I think. I'll do another next week.

Bye for now....