Muriwai Beach is a place at the west coast, just 35 km northwest of Auckland, where you have a long beach of black sand and nices waves to go (or practice) surfing. It also is the home of a colony of a few thousand gannets.
My first day in Auckland was quite fun. I met CouchSurfer Brent from Canada (he was on the same flight from LA as I was) and we shared the pain of going through all those immigration and customs screening. Taking the shuttle from the airport into downtown Auckland, we first went to Auckland Central Backpackers […]
Saturday was my travel day. I flew from Montana via Denver to Los Angeles and then boarded Air New Zealands NZ5 to Auckland. My backbag didn’t though! I already was informed in LA, that my bag still was in Denver. (Strange thing, that United Airlines or Denver Airport or whoever wasn’t able to transfer the […]
Die Idee reifte schon länger vor sich hin, aber konkret wurde es um Ostern nachdem ich meinen neuen Reisepaß erhielt und im Internet ein working holiday Visum beantragt habe. Das war Ostersamstag. Schnell wieder vergessen, dass ich dieses Formular wirklich abgeschickt habe, war ich sehr erstaunt am Mittwoch (also nur vier Tage später ) eine […]
