Once again were on the move. Today we head out of Turtle Cove from Mercury Bay to the lovely Rotorua. I have heard that this place is very nice and am looking forward to making an appearance there. We set off bright and early about 7.30ish. Our first stop today was at some old gold mining caves. We got to see how they managed to get the gold and along the way there was lots of boards which explain how and what happened; you know like the process and everything. We got to go into some caves which were even too dark to see, we had to take tourches, it was fun. Our second stop today was at a cultural place of the Maori people. Part of it is a school for teaching about how to ... read more

Today was another day of waiting around. Having to be up and out of the room by 10am and then waiting around for the bus until 3, we did not plan to do anything today. The morning consisted of tea and pot noodle for breakfast/lunch, mid morning to lunch, and then we sat around in the television room and watched the film Superbad…which we have seen before but it was awesomeeee…of course. After buying some travelling supplies, like water crisps etc, we got back on the bus at 3pm and headed back down to Auckland and managed to arrive there at about 6:30pm ish. We checked in no problem and had a little look around the hostel that we were staying in..which is massiveeeee and has all sorts of stuff in it; it was called ACB ... read more

Today after having a mammoth 12 hour sleep we wanted to do something today…something…like an activity or just something so we aren’t wasting the day. We got up around 11ish and went to make some breakfast. We spoke on skype and then decided to walk to Paihia’s little town to book a trip. We decided that instead of just going to dolphins and doing the half day trip for $89 we were going to the full day trip for $99 which included all of the bay of islands and took the whole day. Bargain. This would also involve supply drops to some private islands. We were happy we booked that and by 2pm we had brought some stuff for sandwiches etc for the boat as it was much cheaper and we were being prepared. On the ... read more

Sorry about this post but we didnt do anything really, unless your interested in the $5 Roast Dinner we had in the evening which was goooood about £2.20 in english money. Cant complain at all about that. Apart from that we knew we had to be up at 7.15 the next morning so tonight we watched a few films on my laptop, packed our bags and off we went to bed nice and early for the early morning wake up! ... read more

Had a very early morning...damn it...knock knock on the door for about 5mins, the people annoyingly reminding us that we had to leave for the airport...especially after last night. We got to the airport by 7am and checking in. BUY RICHARD BRANSONS BOOK - LOSING MY VIRGINITY. IT'S AMAZING iv read 105 pages today. That man is awesome, there is nothing he hasn’t encountered or done. We didn’t get a window seat which wasn’t very good but the leg room on the plane was surprising for some strange reason it felt like we had loads. The journey wasn’t too good though, I was feeling not the best as you can imagine, but we managed to make it. Landing was well dodgy, I think he approached the runway too quick...bloody learner pilot. Arriving back to normality as ... read more