Greetings from middle earth, otherwise know as New Zealand,
As many of you may or may not know, I am travelling around this archipelago with my parents and hordes of sheep as company, although I have yet to see any sheep.... yet. This is in part because we are in Auckland, the countries largest city which houses 1/4 of the population (1.3 million).
We arrived yesterday morning at 5 am, Air New Zealand is now my second favourite airline, British Airways still being the first. The plane food was almost as epic as the safety video( lord of the rings themed featuring Gollum). Kiwis are very proud of the fact that they are kiwi and their culture, with good reason, there music is badass so i spent most of the flight rocking out to Fat Freddys Drop and Lorde and watching Kiwi films (Sionis wedding) which are brilliant and hilarious.
Spent most of yesterday relaxing at the hotel but today I went for a stroll in the city centre. Auckland is very beautiful with excellent coffee ( Im sorry JJ your coffee tastes like wee in comparison) the scent of coffee wafting through the air. It has some very gorgeous European architecture and a beautiful harbour with lots of parks and funky shops. It doesn't feel like 3 days before christmas, I went into multiple shops today and they were absolutely dead. People here are much more friendly than in Canada and kept offering me chocolate in the clothing shops and were more than happy to engage in friendly banter.
There are lots of lanes that act as wind tunnels in addition to quirky shops and pubs. Except the wind is warm and tropical which is most lovely.
Absolutely loving the fact that the stores blast music outside as you walk past and its my favourite music, which i previously mentioned, where I have made an idiot out of myself jiving in the street, although that is not the most idiotic thing I have done in the last twenty four hours. Was out on a walk about and really needed a wee saw a public loo which looked like something from the future. You pushed the green button and it slid back as if you were going into doctor evils layer, and it opened very quickly. So when i went in I thought it would close as quickly as it opened.... It didn't and with my bladder being fuller than the Okavango Delta i dropped my trousers as quickly as possible and to my horror the door was half open so about 15 kiwis unintentionally saw my pasty white bum. Putting the grand total at nationalities who have seen my pasty white bottom at around 12 ( the others being when I was a small child running around naked in various countries and the result of a bus ride from Rwanda to Uganda with a bunch of African women).
Minus making a complete tit out of myself within 48 hours of arriving in a new country, the parents and I have had a great time so far and have been behaving badly. At our hotel, there is this floor where you get free booze and free appetizers....which means free dinner for us and cheeky times... the people working there have started taking the mickey of us now. its a good riot.
Well its day two of our adventure, and so far we haven't killed each other. lets hope it lasts.
