Up North - NZ Style

So on Monday we had a bus to catch to go north to the Bay of Islands but our bus was not until 4:15 so we had time to kill, a little dos and time to update blogs etc. before packing our bags in the morning before we caught the local bus into Aukland central where we had to get our main coach. Although this takes an hour half for what would be a half hour drive the public transport is pretty good at being where it is supposed to be, the only problem is there is not enough of it to run such a quick service so we have to go round the houses. Once we go there we went to the BNZ to follow up our superb phone conversation which I had the other day, with our fingers crossed that we would get as good a service over the counter. We did it was pretty quick and painless and the people where pretty nice, we have the card for two years at which point a new one is sent unless we request otherwise, Brilliant! A quick bit of internet banking and we had our cash transfered across for a 20 POUNDS CHARGE FROM Lloyds!!!! Never mind worked out ok in the end.

There is not really a lot more excitement left in today other than us getting on the Coach and playing a ton of Tap Tap Revenge on my iphone before arriving in quite a bit of rain and running to our hostel "the mouse trap" to stay the night. It was ok in their but there was this very annoying english couple from essex and an American who where all vegetarians (not that there is anything wrong with that, it just describes there character well). They sort of followed the idea of Vegi by name, vegi by nature, kind of like there is nothing wrong with a gay person but the over acts can really get on your nerves. Anyway we scrambled out of there to go get some food, we went to this place called the beachhouse and had a beer and burger for $15 (about 6 quid) which filled a quite empty gap. There wasn't anything left to do but go to bed!

sorry this one wasn't of great intrest but the next post will cover our stay in the bay (poet didn't know it?).

Missing you all, make sure you catch me on facebook or just add a comment here it would be nice to here from you all!!

much love

Joe x x x x x x x x