last post in new zealand

hello all,

nothing exciting happened inbetween leaving taupo and getting to auckland. we stopped in smelly rotorua and hobbiton very briefly and had the richest ice chocolate e-v-e-r. greg had the worst sausage roll ever too. aboslute shocker.

we had planned to go to hard rock cafe tonight for our last meal but it turns out there isn't one in auckland, like we originally thought. so we went for an italian instead, which was really nice. it was a good way to end a great trip.

well this is weird, it's our last proper night in new zealand, tomorrow night we're staying at an airport hotel. this will be our last post whilst in new zealand too... we'll try and sneak a couple in when we're at sydney and singapore airports, but there wont be any photo's now til we get back.

in answer to peoples comments, our hair is a bit lighter, gregs more so, but we still sound the same. since kaikoura we haven't really taken many photo's at all, nevermind of ourselves, because after kaikoura we were just re tracing our steps, we took lots of photo's of those places on the way down. you can look forward to photos of us both sat around waiting at various airports on thursday and friday. we have a 7 hour wait in sydney so we'll see what we can come up with.

don't think there's much more to say, hopefully the sun will be out tomorrow as the hotel near the airport has a pool, otherwise we'll be sat watching tv.

well, see you all in a few days!!!! x x x

auckland to mercury bay

hello everyone, just a quick one as we don't have much time on here.

we made it safely to auckland, stayed there last night in a nice hostel and went out for a meal.

early this morning we got on the kiwi bus and set off for mercury bay.

on the way we made a few stops, first was mt. eden a dormant volcano that gave 360 degree views of auckland, the best stop being a beach just near cathedral cove... we were meant to be going there but that cove was closed for the filming of the 2nd narnia film! we saw a couple of helicoptors moving big boxes.

unfortunately we couldn't get close enough to see anything to do with the filming.

we're now in mercury bay at the hostel, which is nice and clean and has a good atmosphere.

tomorrow we head to rotorua where we spend the night.

we've taken quite a few photo's already but can't upload them from this computer. so we'll do that when we can.

we'll be in touch again as soon as we can.

x x x

ps. hayley, do you mean the estate agents that was sykes waterhouse. sykes waterhouse was SHIT. infact if i was going to work for any estate agents it'd be andrews and co or an independant one. the one in marple bridge is part of countrywide which are shit. it's up to you but i'm warning you estate agency work is not as glamorous as it seems. you get a lot of shit off people and boss' and the targets are awful. give it a try if you want, you may like it, maybe it just wasn't for me, plus the guy running it when i was there was crap.