We stepped off the plane in Auckland to be greeted with grey skies and rain but the fact that we were able to get into a taxi, speak to a driver that could understand us, knew exactly where we wanted to go and knew a quicker route than the one the satnav suggested more than made up for that! After checking in to where we were staying and having a nap we walked along the coast to the city where we were meeting Julia’s sister Jenny, who has been in Australia for the last six months. We’d only been in the country a few hours and we were already excited about what the next couple of months had in store. Lee, our friend from Vietnam, picked us up the next morning and showed us some of
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