Trip to Bay of Islands We caught the bus at 7.40am and were greeted by our tour guide Nance. Such a fun and crazy lady!!!! She made everyone interact with eachother straight away to get rid of any nerves! She talked all about Auckland and where we were going on our trip, didn't realise that Auckland was twice the size of London as there is a massive urban spread, whilst the city is pretty small. Everyone seemed to really hate Auckland...even the people who liv...

We thought it would be a good day to look around Auckland. After asking many locals what the best things to do are, we realised that no one actually likes Auckland or thinks there is anything worthwhile to do there! We decided to go up the Sky City Tower to have a view of the city. It was definately worth doing as the weather was great and the views were gorgeous. We booked our 3 day Bay of Islands trip and my entire New Zealand Stray pass. Spent the rest of ...

Arrived at the airport and caught a cab t the ABC Base hostel. Looked like a pretty cool hostel. We couldn't check in yet so we walked down Queen Street and got some sushi for lunch. Once checked in we had a sleep for an hour and sorted out our emails, then we went to a place called Tonys for dinner...not good! We headed to the cinema to see death race. Pretty chilled day.