Blogs from Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 349

Well hellooooo there!!!! Ok well I thought I'd do a little post b4 I jet off tommorrow...Yes thats right!!! TOMORROW!!!!!! Nerves only just started kickin in this afternoon...So I'm a bit like WOAH at the moment!! But its all good!!! So yup what have I been up to since I finished work...well I've been quite busy!!! In short spent a week up Bay Of Islands (Matauri Bay)...Then came back to Auckland and the next day headed back up Nth again to Waipu for a few days. What was supposed to take us just under 2hours to get there took us SEVEN!!!!!!! Anyways after that went down to Napier for a few days..and then came back to Aucks to get ready for the big OE.... Well Matauri Bay was basically a holiday with my family....It was cool! ... read more

Hey, hey, hey After 24 hours of flight, we are finally in Auckland.... SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the plane, we've met a kiwi gal, Sonja who invited us to sleep for the night in her house! she's just came back Mexico and her family and friends organised a party! There we met one of her friend Katie and for a week, they took care of us........... They are so funny, we had great times with them! thanx gals!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise Auckland is nice, especially the islands nearby and the view we have from the top of the volcano! We had our first Fish and Chips there.... yummy! One of the highlights of my stay there was when i met Carlos spencer (my husband!!!), Ali williams, Joe Rokocoko, Doug Hewelt.... Nous voici à Auckland après 24 heures d'avion! Il fait ... read more

Well yes its the 1st of Dec today...which means I have 5 weeks and 5 days to go until I leave on the big old jet plane!! Woo Hoo!! YAY!!!!...yes as you can seee I'm a little excited!!! But yes passport dilemmas this week...I applied for a Brit Passport which was all sweet as...approved and everything, all they had to do was send it out(which they did).. But the dam courier company went and lost it didn't they!!!! Aaarrrgghhh!!!!... So for the past 3 days I've been back and forth on the phone with the courier people trying to sort it out!...about 10mins ago I got a phone call saying they'd found it..about BLOODY TIME!!! So yup now that the stress is over...I can relax and look forward to my travels..Which waiting for by the way ... read more

There hasn’t been a travelblog for a while, and since we’ve finally done something worth writing about, I thought I should give you all an update. The past month has been all about work. Weekends have been spent drinking (of course!) going to a Highland Games (weird in November!), a shopping splurge which means that we now have computer and internet facilities at home (yay!) and generally pottering about in this city we are calling home for the moment. This weekend we’ve had out first visitor from home - Vicki, who used to work with Graeme at Glasgow (yes, she’s a planner too) has been on holiday in Australia for a few weeks and decided to pop over and see NZ in a week. She arrived on Thursday evening, and of course the first thing to ... read more

When I got to New Zealand Neil was looking at getting a boat with his mate Mark. After looking around a few second hand ones the drafted in another buyer, Neils mate John, they bought a new fishing boat!! Went out around Auckland harbour and out to a few islands in the Hauraki Gulf. Took a few day trips out to islands and went sea biscuiting, fishing and wakeboarding.... read more