Well, summer is pretty much here. About three weeks ago Tom got a job in Auckland and made the decision to have himself a holiday in Tonga. Matthew on the other hand was being as indecisive as usual, but had made the decision to do hard, sunny, outdoor work like so many backpackers do. The thought of spending his second summer of 2008 indoors was just too much to bare. So on Friday the 7th of November Matt set sail (on a bus) to sunny Napier, the Art Deco town o...

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...

You might all be pleased to know that in Wellington right now it is raining. Heavily. Thus the decision to sit inside and update the blog. Since the last edition we both enjoyed a simply brilliant last four days in Auckland, a city we weren't too sure about to begin with, but ended up loving by the end. Once we had decided to leave for Rotorua on the Sunday and purchased the required coach tickets we ended up relaxing a lot more, got in some beers and started to...

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...