Sydney in 48 hours

Who needs a sightseeing tour bus when you have cousins that live in Sydney! With 48 hours in this iconic city, we managed to cram in all the major sights in 33 degree heat thanks to our excellent tour guides 'Chris & Alice Ltd' (I highly recommend them!)

Sight's of Sydney

Photo of the week (w/c 23rd December 2013)

    We had arrived in Sydney!

Setting sail

After a night's stay with cousins Justin and Jenny in Auckland we headed up north to The Bay of Islands.

We stayed in Russell (the old capital of NZ), which was one of the first European settlements and back then known as "the hell hole of NZ". Nowadays its a quiet sailing town where all the inhabitants knew each other and the only bars were the local fishing, yacht or sailing clubs.

Our campsite owner knew just the best way to experience the area and after a quick phone call we were booked onto The Phantom - 50ft yacht with Rick and Robin for a full day sailing.

Chris heading up The Phantom (Xth Dec 2013)

Auckland's Top 10!

1. You can't visit Auckland without seeing the iconic Sky Tower (but to be fair it's hard to miss it!)

Photo of the week (w/c 16th December)

"Scary faces!" (17th December 2013)

Is it really the fault of the English?

Having almost reached the end of our NZ tour and read/heard much along the way regarding the Maori and European settlers, we headed to the home of the Waitangi Treaty itself to see if we could put the disagreements to bed.

Copy of the signed Waitangi agreement (17th December 2013)