Merry Christmas everyone!!! It has been nearly 5 weeks since I last updated my half of the blog, at that point I had just returned from Tonga and was just starting work at Kathmandu (camping shop in central Auckland). So what have I been up to I hear you cry??? Well I have spent most of my days at work in Kathmandu, (imagine Millets or Blacks in England). It was interesting to learn all about technical camping gear and products and tills etc but the novelty...

Welcome to Chapter 3, just like Chapter 1 this Chapter set again in Auckland. Picking up where Matt left off, we decided Wellington was too windy, wet and drab, in essence, too English. However, we had made one decision; we were going to work in a city. As NZ only has two real cities on the North Island we jumped on a train back up to Auckland. This in itself was an adventure. It takes a mind boggling 12 hours to get from Wellington to Auckland. Not because it...

Well we have made it past our first week and thought it was time for an update to the blog. The first two days was passed sitting on airplanes. The flight was not as bad as we thought it might be, I-pods, games, books, food and TV passed the incredible 23 hours sat on a plane. However, by the time we arrived in Auckland we were a mess, without decent sleep for two days we stumbled our way to our first hostel and somehow explained that we had a room booked. We c...