The Magic Bus departed from central Auckland at 8 on a blustery Saturday morning with a few threatening looking clouds following us out of the city. On our exit from the city we stopped again at Mt. Eden (even colder this time!) for a quick photoshoot before making our way along the Miranda Seabird Coast towards the Coromandel Peninsula. This Peninsula normally bears the brunt of the harsh weather, therefore protecting the inner land, and has an unusual remotenes...

My flight to Auckland, although not the longest I've ever done, definitely felt like it. It was awful, I had 2 stops in Adelaide and Sydney, and I didn't manage to catch a wink of sleep. I eventually arrived in New Zealand at 17.30 local time, a little dazed, completely shattered and a bit daunted by what lay ahead. The past 2 weeks had flown by without me realising it. I had made really good friends and suddenly I was alone, in a big city, with no Johann to guid...