Kiwi country

Kiwi country

Well after hanging out on Fiji time for 11 days we decided to change our tickets and head for our next stop. Fiji was nice and relaxing but very  hard to get around and nothing to do there if you dont golf, dive or sunbath. We had a wonderful stay at Beachside Resort in Nadi where we spent the majority of a time. A lovely Kiwi couple Philip and Jane who ran a really nice place, had a friendly staff and made it feel like home away from home.

We landed in Auckland around noon yesterday (Sept 15 over here). Had a quick bit to eat and jumped on a Airbus(airport shuttle). Heading into downtown Auckland we were really excited as the place is immaculate kept, clean, rubbish free, and well maintained. The outlying areas are quite quaint and we could easily see ourselves living in one of those types of neighborhood. We got to the busy downtown metropolis of Auckland to be overrun with crowds of people walking around, there are a lot of cool side streets with neat shops and you cant go 10 feet without passing a cafe.
After checking into our hotel for 3 nights (we are going to see if we can move up the pickup on our camper van) We headed out on the town to walk around and get a feel for the place. We walked around a few hours and returned to the hotel to figure out a plan for the evening and the next day. I't was late in the evening and most things were closed for the night so we wandered down to the cinema a few blocks down and decided to check out a movie. Imax was $2 dollars more and we figured what the heck. We watched Inception, with about 10 other people in the theater. Movies are about 6-8 months behind us and the "coming soon to a theater near you" movies are out on bluray back home. Movie over we wandered around a bit looking for a bite to eat. Not wanting fast food we decided "Turkish Delight" sounded delightful... Popped back upto the hotel, tiniest room on the planet by the way and the bathroom is straight out of a space shuttle, ate our felafel's. watched some tele and attempted to sleep... the city is retardedly loud at night, it is way more quite during the day.
Today we are updating the blog because we have some decent Internet and heading out on the linkbus, to check out more than the few blocks we walked around in.