http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Fluttermwnd/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Fluttermwnd en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:37:01 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:37:01 +0000 Finally after forever and a day the day had arrived when we would hand over the keys to the flat pick up the rental car and leave Auckland to start our travels. However all had not been rosy in the preceeding weeks...Ever since the second week of December both Corina and I had suffered illnesses that had kept us off work off alcohol and off pretty much everything apart from the toilet and th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Tauranga/blog-360929.html Auckland has been our home for 8 months now and we've had a wonderful crazy bad wasted lucky beautiful time here. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-353832.html The Farmers Santa Parade... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-353828.html Oh dear http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Devonport/blog-353831.html Whilst getting out of the car in the Huka Jet... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-353830.html We'd missed out on the Hasting's games much to our disappointment... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Mount-Eden/blog-353827.html The final leg of the manic weekend in Taupo was a trip to... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-353826.html The idea of doing a bungy jump had been in our minds and conversations for our whole time in NZ indeedm it would seem neither of us could bear the thought of leaving there without having leapt off a cliff attached to an elastic band... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-353824.html Fresh from utter physical breakdown on the Tongariro...some lunatic... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-353822.html Wow. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Tongariro-National-Park/blog-353821.html We wanted to return to Waiheke even since we'd been in Sept as at the time we'd only seen a little... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Waiheke-Island/blog-353819.html Oh dear...It all seemed to be so good... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Goat-Island/blog-353818.html It cost us far too much but it was a very nice holiday... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Waitomo/blog-353817.html Our two visits to Auckland Zoo... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-353811.html It was time to get pissed... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-353816.html We'd talked about it so often... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-353815.html one of Corina's work colleague was celebrating... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-353814.html We'd been in serious need of a holiday for some time... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Waiheke-Island/blog-353813.html We returned to Devonport a number of times given our liking for it and it's cheap and easy access. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Devonport/blog-353806.html We'd considered Rangitoto Island one of the bighitters of the Auckland tourist thingstodo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Rangitoto/blog-353809.html