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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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wives over
to spend a nice summer's evening. It was a great way to spend the night,
first having a barbecue outside, then checking out the house across the
street -- which had been elaborately decorated with every type of Christmas
light and decoration you could imagine -- then going back in to talk, listen
to Australian folk music, and just chat the night away in an Australian
home.

NEW ZEALAND

At the Brisbane airport the next morning, while waiting for my flight to
Auckland, I decided to make some calls to see if any accomidations had
become available at the Bay of Islands. Instead of calling the central
reservations number for the area, as I had done the day before, I took out
the Lonely Planet book, and decided to call some of the places directly.
The first place I called was a B&B listed as "Te Haumi House". Luckily,
the Lonely Planet screwed up, and printed the phone number for another B&B
(called "Abba Villa") as the number for "Te Haumi House". When I called,
the lady at Abba Villa said "Ah, you must be using the Lonely Planet. Would
you like Te Haumi's number?" I asked her instead if they had a room
available, and luckily, she had one left. I had her hold it for me, and I
was off to New Zealand.

I arrived into Auckland around 3:00pm, and immediately rented a car to
start the drive north to the Bay of Islands. Before long, it started to
feel as if I never left California. Why? Because I was driving on the
afternoon of Dec 31st -- New Years Eve, and it seemed that every car in
Auckland was headed up to the Bay of Islands for New Years. I wasn't more
than 20 minutes out of Auckland when the traffic suddenly came to a
standstill, and the only sight ahead was a line of cars stretching off into
the horizon.
Like most roads in New Zealand, the main coastal route I was taking ...

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