So I got to my hotel at around 6:30 and had to wait three hours or so before I could check into my hotel. Tough start to the day. It’s going to be around 20c today. It was raining, but not really rain. More like Mother Nature was trying to discipline a cat with a [...]
Dec 052011
Dec 202010
From Wellington, a 3 hour ferry and a 6 hour train ride took us to Christchurch. The ferry was full of tourists, locals, and livestock as it made its way to Pincton, a tiny little village with a large cargo port for ships and trains and backpacking hostels for those making their way through the [...]
Dec 162010
We got to our hotel for about 2/2:30pm. Wellington is a very hilly town with a population of 450,000. The way it compensates for its hills is kind of strange. To get to the hotel, we had to enter through a small shopping area to take an elevator 9 stories up, and then we were [...]
Dec 162010
It was 1am in Auckland when we landed. I left my laptop in the seat pocket while flying, and when disembarking the plane. Something I only realized after making it half way to New Zealand customs. I ran back where to my surprise people were still getting off the plane and got my laptop. The [...]
Dec 152010
Swam in a long beach on Waiheke Island. Got miserably sun burnt. Nothing I can do about it other than grin and bear it. After did a day long tour of some New Zealand countryside, and then a boat ride around the Bay of Islands. The next day, wandered around downtown Auckland, then at 6:30pm [...]
Bad sun screen and bad sun screen practices have turned me into a giant red canadian after swimming/floating in the pacific ocean all day on the beaches of Waiheke Island in New Zealand. I’ll post more about Sydney and Auckland later.
