Nelson is apparently the sunshine capital of New Zealand. That is a lie. Apart from half a day when we could make use of the pool at the hostel, it pretty much pissed down the whole time and has done ever since! After stopping off for some wine tasting, we ambled off the bus and found our hostel around 5pm. A group of us decided to cook up a feast and all clubbed in to cook up some fajitas. Despite our German friend not knowing what to do with them, nor how much food to put in them (Ryan was particularly [View Full Entry]

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At the ungodly hour of 7am we were due to catch the magic bus to begin our tour around New Zealand, and thankfully, get away from auckland. The first stop was Roturua which is a geo-thermal town based south of auckland, which due to the volcanic activity, stinks to high heaven. Although not that far away, thanks to some exciting stops en route (the most thrilling being a shop that sells stones) we arrived in rotorua around 5pm, and without further-a-do, headed straight to the bar and the free bbq! After a less than succesfull game of wii olympics, which saw [View Full Entry]

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After a short 3 hour flight we landed in Auckland to find our hostel double booked, excellent news. We were the unfortunate ones and had to move for one night to a different hostel down the road which can only be described as… crap. The next day we were allowed back into our original hostel and to be honest, pretty much stayed there for next 2 days solid. Auckland as a city is pretty dull so we used the time to do some laundry and just for a change, play cwango. On Monday we decided to hire a car for a [View Full Entry]

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The local bus dropped us off at 7pm and we had to walk down a pitch black lane for 10 minutes until we found the resort, the security guard welcomed us and feeling sorry that we had to walk in the dark, he gave us a bowl of kava and showed us to our room! The next day we booked ourselves on a fishing and island trip, about 10 of us crowded on to this small boat and went off in search of fish and hopefully sun. After about an hour of smashing along the waves and needing to see a [View Full Entry]

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BULA from Fiji! Bula is the Fijian word for hello, and given the friendly nature of the people hear we must have used this work at least 1000 times! After leaving San Francisco at 10pm on 10th November and flying for 11 hours, we landed in Fiji at 5am on the 12th November…The more we think about it the more confusing it gets but its basically something to do with the international date line and shit. Anyway our ferry left for the resort at 10 am and after a choppy and rather wet 90 minute ride we arrived at octopus. The [View Full Entry]

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We landed in san francisco late on friday evening and straight away got a good vibe from the place, it was totally different from new york, a lot more laid back and apart from the vast amounts of beggers, of which we encountered about 10 walking 3 blocks to our hostels, we found the place pretty sweet! We checked into our room, which thankfully was a lot bigger than new york, and got some much needed sleep. The next day we had a stroll around the city, walked through chinatown and up to pier 39 where san franciscos smelliest residents hang [View Full Entry]

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So, after a 8 hour flight and several glasses of red wine, we landed in NYC exhausted, jet lagged and evenutally lost! We found our hostel around 10pm and checked into the smallest 6 man room possible, it felt like i was sleeping with these people as opposed next to them! The next day we got up, had breakfast in times square and went to collect our new york passes. These turned out to be excellent value and basically gives you free entry to the top 50 attractions in new york. We managed to fit in the empire state building, rockafeller [View Full Entry]

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