Sunday, March 18, 2007

Auckland, New Zealand

We arrived in Auckland a few days earlier than planned, mainly because we couldn't take the humidity of Fiji any longer. Auckland is very nice, alot like London in many ways.

We arrived on St Patricks day, so met up with the 2 Andy's for a few beers. It wasn't a wild night as we were tired from our flight. We saw them again the next day for the Melbourne Grand Prix (first of the season), we ended up spending the whole afternoon in the pub and then going for pizza, which we ate underneath the Sky Tower before falling into the Irish pub over the road for goodbye drinks as the 2 Andy's were starting the Stray tour the next day.

We went up the Sky Tower a few days later to watch the sunset from the tallest building in the southern hemisphere.
When we first said we were going travelling, many people said to watch out for the "kids", i.e the 18 year old gap students. Up till now we haven't really seen too many kids which has been fabulous. In Mexico there were so many people our age travelling (commitment phobes I'm thinking) and the U.S and Hawaii there weren't too many kids either.
However, we arrive in Auckland to be greeted by Harry and his mates on their gap year before starting uni. We shared a room with Harry and his mates for 2 nights and their weren't too bad (although I did have to tell them to tidy up their stuff - it was all over the room) until they left for the airport at 3am and we had 4 backpacks and 2 surfboards banging out of the room.

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