6 hours 30 minutes...

...was how long my flight out of Fiji was delayed for!!! At first it was 2 hours but then it turned into 4, then 6... then 6 and a half hours! Talk about being pissed off. My mobile was low on battery and I couldn't get any phone cards to make any calls back home. Bugger it. I had some crap airport food, got a few drinks in at the bar, then slept on the seats in the waiting lounge.

The flight from Fiji to New Zealand flew by (excuse the pun). I watched a bit of the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' which was rather pap, had dinner and just passed out. I awoke just when we were approaching Auckland International Airport.

Excuse the photo, its the only one I have taken since I have been in Kiwi land.

I arrived at the hostel at about 7am, checked in, and then got lured into the lounge of the hostel where a few guys and a girl were getting drunk... So of course, I shared my 58% Fijean Bounty Dark Rum with the Jim Beam and got hammered... In Auckland, until 10am when I think I made it to my room and woke up my dorm roommates and conked out in my top bunkbed. But then I woke up and spoke to an Irish guy and a German guy who are in my room and then me and the Irish guy crossed the main road outside to get McDonald's breakfast. They do a muffin which is like a Double Sausage & Egg McMuffin but with bacon on as well. And I mean the old skool' round Canadian bacon, not that streaky sh*t that we used to (and I presume still do) serve in England. I bought a hot chocolate, but when I made it back to my room and woke up at 2 in the afternoon, I guessed it was too late to drink it.

The hostel is cool, the internet thing is down at the moment but there is a job / work thing there for people wanting to find work in New Zealand, and there is also a travel thing there so I can get my Kiwi Experience tickets & bus passes. If the Kiwi Experience is anything remotely like the Feejee Experience in terms of meeting cool people and doing stupid crazy stuff all the time I cannot wait to start it! Although first I need to get some work in and save some money before I do!

I'm signing off now, I've typed so much in this blog today (its cool how you can edit the published date & time heh heh) and uploaded about 250mb worth of photos from my camera, and I'm getting hungry again so I need to get off my arse and get some food. I'm sure a night in and a drink or two will be more than enough as I need a good nights sleep, but I have a feeling that an Aussie guy and probably every other person in the hostel with an appetite for booze will drag everyone else down to the crap bar thats nextdoor for a long long night out! I guess it'd be rude not to, I mean, it is Friday night, and it is my 1st night in New Zealand!

Apparently the women here aren't that nice. I've seen a few nice ones, but I think I know what they are talking about. "Buy British", thats all I can say!

Love you all,

Stevie P, comin' all the way at'cha' from Kiwi Country...