Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What The Travel Blogs Say

Extracts from travel blogs over the last few days Auckland Farmers Markets By Tracey Ambrose Victoria Park Markets: 210 Victoria Street West, Auckland City. La Cigale French Market: St Georges Bay Road, Parnell. Alfriston Country Market: Cnr Mill Road and Alfriston Road, Clevedon (1st Saturday of the month 9am-12pm) ...

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Arrival in he capital - Auckland, New Zealand

In the evening, Armin did a good carbonara and after a little chat about our year in Montreal and few pictures of my trip, we had some rest in order to be fresh to visit Auckland in the morning before my plane for Tahiti.

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Auckland Kuala Lumpur So my last day in Auckland was pretty intense. I went on the canyoning trip that I wrote about the last time up in the mountains about 40 mins outside of Auckland. We started by putting on wetsuits helmets and repelling harnesses then ...

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Quirky Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand

Finally we have made our way into Auckland... it was really pretty easy to find the place where we are staying at right now. We just drove on in... with out a map anything... thank god for my photographic memory! :-)

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Welcome to NZ! - Auckland, New Zealand

We flew into Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, and on the North Island. Our early flights meant we had to stay at the airport for five hours, waiting for the hostel doors to open at 8.30am! They offered an airport pick-up but ...

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Auckland journal: Time to Say Good Bye

By Tyler&Mairead (RealTravel members)

We leave new Zealand in 2 days, and are just relaxing in Auckland until then. I think we'll hit the town tonight to celebrate. By hit the town I mean a burrito in a food court and possibly one margarita EACH if we're lucky : ) ...

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Auckland journal: Week 1!

By Pru&Ian(RealTravel members) a entry by Pru&Ian from a trip to Auckland, New Zealand. We arrived on the Thursday, and spent the first couple of days eating, and finding our bearings! We also had a van to buy! On the Friday we visited a local backpackers car market ...

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Glaciers And Beaches - Auckland, New Zealand

Back in Auckland we got there just in time to catch happy hour at our hostel and then get on the hostel tour bus to go to the rugby. Auckland Blues were playing at home to the Brumbies from Canberra and I was interested to see ...

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But it' s not that of an interesting place to do a lot

The beaches and islands around Auckland would be awesome, if the sun would shine! Our last days in NZ are spent with typical Kiwi weather. :-( ...

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

What Travel Blogs Say

Extracts from travel blogs over the last few days Auckland Espresso Run Kiril is a traveller with an interest in fine espresso. Here's his report on central Auckland coffee shops he visited.

A Very Merry Valenirthday - Auckland, New Zealand

A blogger describes her 19th birthday spent in Auckland

One leg of lamb roast, a couple ears of sweetcorn, some mint peas, a loaf of garlic bread, a bunch of potatoes, kumara and roasted pumpkin, one pavlova, a loaf of ice cream, some pineapple lumps, a pan of brownies, and a whole stomach later- i was finally able to turn the page on another year..kiwi style. It was a birthday unlike the rest- one i wont soon forget, for the very best of reasons. ...

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Christchurch Here We Come - Auckland, New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand What an exciting day. Probably not for Tane' who was dragged out of bed early, and expected to be ready for school in record time. After 6 months of waiting it had finally arrived - my first overseas trip. ...

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Auckland Again - Auckland, New Zealand After we dropped off the rental car today (after almost 5000 km in NZ), we made our way up Auckland's Sky Tower to a height of 220 metres where we enjoyed fabulous panoramic views of the city and surrounding area. ...

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Lots of strange and phenomenal things.

Continuing the hot water theme, our campsite in Parakai, just North of Auckland had an aquatic park adjacent and we spent a lovely afternoon swimming, lounging in the warmest swimming pool ever (39 degrees C) and braving the reasonably ...

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Auckland, NZ... I'm in New Zealand!!!

Today, I arrived into Auckland after a ~12 hour flight and the sun sets by the time I rent a car and find my way into the city to secure a place to sleep. As soon as I get off the plane I notice that almost every girl is wearing a ...

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Auckland and more!

By Kiwi KTP

This weekend I went on a bus tour around Auckland. We went to the top of the Sky Tower, which is the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere. It was beautiful to look out and see the city and harbour. After we had pizza for lunch. ...

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KiwiLand! By Remaining Girl(International Backpackers)

I'll be spending a few days in Auckland with friends, then meeting up with another friend. We (very tentatively!) plan to fly to Queenstown then take about 2 weeks to bus it back up to Auckland. There seem to be several different ways ...

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Auckland then north some then south some - Christchurch, New Zealand

We arrived into Auckland on a not so great (weather wise) afternoon. Once in the our huge hostel (7 floors worth) I decided to take a wander around the town as we were pretty central and kev was sleeping. Seen all the sites near like ...

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