New Zealand observations

People The people are very friendly and erm, helpful.  Well, they think they are but do things like give you completely inane directions because they want to talk to you and couldn´t possibly consider telling you that they don´t know or can´t help you.  The Maori people also seemed to be a very friendly bunch.  […]

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Tuesday 14th October – Auckland to Santiago

So I´m finally on the plane, leaving another continent and continuing on my travels towards South America.  The seat directly next to me was vacant and to the left of that were two Australians who were embarking on the start of a year in South America.    The flight itself was fine until later on […]

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Tuesday 14th October – Hahei to Auckland airport

We left the campground in the morning and headed slowly towards Auckland.  En route we stopped at a huge gemstone place where I was very restrained in buying only presents and a couple of polished stones.  In the same town (I can´t remember the name) we went to some water gardens which were lovely and […]

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