Auckland for the 3rd time!

Ah, Auckland again!!! Well, we spent almost 2 weeks back in Auckland and basically did stuff all!!! We crashed at Rob and Judiths which is the worlds tiniest apartment!!! But they let us have their livingroom / kitchen floor to sleep on which was fine with our thermorests and sleeping bags!! It was really good of them to put us up, especially for so long. They were both working a lot so didn't get to see quite as much of them as we'd planned, but we did manage a few nights out and a couple of days!!! One day out was a mammoth all dayer, we started at 8.30 am in a sports bar as Rich wanted to watch a Man Utd game, we had breakfast, lunch and dinner in the same bar and finally left at 10.30pm by which point I was in a mess!!!!

A short ferry journey to a place called Devonport and a 2 volcano walk there and an afternoon spent in Auckland Museum are about the only touristy things we did!! The rest of the time we were either drinking, shopping or going to the cinema. We did enjoy our stay in Auckland, but we perhaps spent a little bit too long there!!

But, while we were there, we heard from another girl we met in Fiji, same place we met Rob and Judith. Lesley had arrived in New Zealand and was working in a hostel up in Paihia (we'd already been there 4 weeks ago!!) But, we wanted to catch up with her too, so after about 10 or 11 days in Auckland we headed back up North to Paihia!!

Just in case anybody is wondering (as we're due to be flying out from Christchurch on 2nd Dec) we have changed our flight to 20th Jan now so will be spending Christmas and New Year here. However, the way we're zigzagging around the place we may have to extend that date again!! We'll just have to jig things around and make up the time elsewhere, no worries!!