Taupo - Auckland

Well this is it for the Kiwi Experience - thank god! Not that I didn't enjoy my travels but I am so bored of bus travel!

We travelled from Taupo to Auckland today, I was running late this morning so I legged it down the stairs and the bus was waiting! Dave and Effa from my previous buses were onboard so it was cool to catch up with them!

We stopped in Rotorua to drop people off and pick some others up and then made our way to Mt Maunganui. This is a surf town about 3 hours east of Auckland. It was raining when we arrived so I saw the beach which is obviously a really nice beach to hang out on in the sunshine, but alas - it was raining! So I started chatting to a canadian girl and we ended up walking through the shops together for the 2 hours we had there! Some people went to the saltwater pools but it didn't tempt me!

Leaving Mt Maunganui we went straight through to Auckland where the driver dropped me off a mile away from the hostel! Idiot! So I had to walk down George Street with all my luggage and try not to bang into too many xmas shoppers!

I spent the rest of the day looking in the shops, on the internet and I had dinner at the asian food court!