Wow what a week! Have been treated like princesses staying with our pal Penny in central Auckland - managed to go out on the town three nights out of six which I think is quite an achievement considering we rarely drink anything stronger than tea...(Ahem!!!!) After our windsurfing earlier in the week we ventured to Piha beach and saw some amazing surf and pretty skilled shark biscuits, some big pretty rocks (if you can call rocks pretty!) and ate fish and chips ...

Flew into Auckland yesterday to be met at the airport by the lovely Penny who we met in Venice this July. I love New Zealand already but we have definitely brought the weather with us, it has rained pretty much solidly since we arrived! - went to an authentic Kiwi shopping mall to buy some hoodies and warm clothes-hahaha!! Penny just took us up to her Dad's farm near Dairy Flats which was beautiful...90 acres of land full of cattle, sheep and hens... and a fre...