After a more than eventful flight than usual with deportees throwing up a fuss at Heathrow and mega turbulence over the pacific resulting in a broken leg for the crazy Chinese lady taking a photo of the turbulence, well I guess that what she was trying to do, we landed in Auckland. From here we got the shuttle bus to the hostel and found our home for 3 days. We took a nice stroll to Albert pack, very British in more than just the name where we tried sort us some WWOOFing but it soon became apparent that one needs to book this in advance and cant just sort it like that. Oh well will survive. The following day we spent the day abusing free internet in Auckland library and took in a bit of culture at the Auckland art gallery which was FREE!!! On our way back to the hostel we met the first nutter, (a possessed midget in the eyes of some) having a full blow argument with a statue. WHAT ARE YOU DOING he kept shouting, I was sure if the statue said the wrong thing it was going to get messy. In the evening we went down to the fan zone for the rugby and watched the South Africans beat a determined Samoa much to the disappointment of the large Samoan crowd. The next day it was off to the land of Whangerie where we found the Framingham of cities. Population of around 48,000 but the place was incredibly quiet even on Saturday night when we went to an Irish pub for the England game. On the 2nd we look a rather long but good walk to the Whangerie falls which weren’t really that impressive to be honest but in good weather it would be a nice picnic spot, shame it was tipping it down then. In the evening it was back to the pub for the Ireland game which had a very disappointing turn out but I guess that what we should have expected from this ‘city’.
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