We got up at 7am ready to check out of the hostel and pick up the Kiwi Experience bus at 8.30am. Gina and I are travelling round New Zealand on the Kiwi Experience for a month covering the north and south island. We are doing the sleep dog pass and can hop on and off throughout New Zealand and stay for as long as we want in each place. The Kiwi Experience also organises activities along the way and in each place we stay so we can see the best of New Zealand. Ther...

We got up at 8am ready to walk to the Sky Tower to pick up the Auckland Explorer Bus. It is a hop on and hop off sightseeing bus visiting 14 big attractions around Auckland. We got this free with our Explore New Zealand cards. Loving the freebies lol. We went from the Sky Tower to Victoria Park Market, Americas Cup Viaduct Harbour, ferry building, Bastion Point lookout and Mission Bay Beach and Kelly Tarltons Antartic Encounter and Underwater World. We stopped of...

Today we got up and headed to the library to use the free internet as we needed to change some dates for the Kiwi Experience we are starting on Monday. Then we went to get some lunch before we headed to Auckland Harbour. We are doing a dolphin and whale cruise at 1.30pm. As we both have the Explore New Zealand cards we got the cruise free whereas it normally costs $150.00. Next to our boat was the Emirates Team New Zealand sailing boat that they use in the Americ...

Got up around 9am. The hostel doesn't offer free breakfast so everyone sleeps in especially if it's been a heavy one the night before. Gina was arriving today from Los Angeles. Her flight was due in at 8.05am so by the time she got to the hostel it was around 10.30am. She found out the room I was staying in and came up to see me. It was really great to see her after a month. She couldn't check in until 1pm so we went out and had a walk around. Gina needed to open...

Got up around 12pm as I had been really tired from travelling to Auckland. Most people were sleeping in anyway. I had a walk around the hostel. It is massive. There are 10 levels of rooms so loads of people stay here. I went on the internet for a bit. Then I went out to have a look around Auckland City but I didn't do much sightseeing as I wanted to wait until Gina arrives tomorrow. Plus it was raining on and off today. It's Spring time here and isn't Summer yet ...