Piha and more relaxing days (Auckland)

My holidays turn out to be very relaxing and I really enjoy my free time. Most of the time is spend in bed and with lazy walks. In my last remaining days  I haven’t done much, but it was great anyway.

On Wednesday I spend the day with a friend and we went to the Stardome (near one tree hill) observatory building and had a look around the information, we visited later that day a show ‘The northern stars’. When the show started I was full of excitement and couldn’t wait. After a while I just thought what a waste of time and the voice of the man that explained the star signs was kind of annoying, good thing I was in great company :)

The Explorer day (Auckland)

The early bird catches the worm hence I got up earlier (and yes I had to use the alarm to wake me up).

Glen was so kind and drove me a round today to a few further places that are difficult to reach with public transport (not impossible though). First stop was the ‘One Tree Hill’ with a fantastic view over Auckland. We checked out as well the Acacia Cottage, where the founder of Auckland lived. His grave is on top of the hill. The animals around as walked free, no fence or anything else, anyone could go up to them, not that I would recommend it.

Kia Ora (Auckland)

After now 2 days in the wonderful city Auckland I start to see the beauty of New Zealand and I bet it will be even better once I am on the road.

Even though the weather is not really nice since I came, it has been raining the whole time, I enjoyed my time. As planned I started out really really lazy and met up with some friends yesterday.

We went for some lunch, which was followed by a visit to the cinema. In between we explored a little bit the city and had a coffee on the way. I really enjoyed the company and wish I could spend some more time in Auckland.

Good bye Australia (for now) and Hello New Zealand

The last couple of weeks were not very exciting and I spend the remaining time on the farm finishing off a few jobs and done some research for New Zealand. Of course the cooking continued and I enjoyed it as much as possible as I know I won’t have the same in New Zealand, and who knows I might even lose the odd pound with the travel diet again.