BAAAACKKK from amazing New Zealand, back from the most friendly people ever and a holiday that turned out way different than it was planned: it turned out so much better!!! A lot of crazy stories, experiences and unexpected meetings happened to me and everyone spoilt me so badly that now I feel like I am someone special haha ;-) And of course I ( Read more... )

 - New Zealand is only 25 % smaller than Germany but has only 4 Million inhabitants whilst Germany has 80 Million!Do u now understand why this country feels like a world to itself?

- Kiwis are the most friendliest people I've ever met..they talk to you simply everywhere..and they even wave at you in small towns like Matamata...if there's one rule to ( Read more... )

"Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to this Air New Zealand Flight No. blabla from London to Auckland via Hong Kong...the estimated duration of our flight will be 26 hours and 22 minutes..make yourselves comfortable" :-D

So that was me on this Boeing 747-400 jammed in the middle row on the middle seat (as I was on a feeder from Munich to London with ( Read more... )

Yes so that was me, Monday afternoon, 1pm in sunny and HOT Auckland with (surprisingly) no jetlag as everything was SOOO exciting: Craig's house, Craig's friends, first glimpse of Auckland (which is A LOT smaller than it looks on the pictures), sailing boats everywhere, the plants, the strange birds singing and and and...but the culture shock wasn' ( Read more... )

Day 4:  Finally thursday, finally I would be going to HOBBITON!!! As Craig had a job to do in Hamilton he gave me a ride down to Matamata (about 2 hours from Auckland) and drove me to the Alexander Farm up in the hills where they filmed "Lord of the Rings". Funny enough I was the only person there..no one else had turned up yet..haha so I had a ( Read more... )

 Day 7-8: "The ultimative NZ, LOTR and NZ food trail tour" started (like my actor friend called it haha). He picked me up at Craig's house on sunday morning and before we left Auckland he had to pick something up at the filmstudios on Mt. Wellington..not very spectacular ;-). We were then heading south, passing Hamilton, Taupo and various other ( Read more... )

 Day 9-10: WELLINGTOOOOOONNN...and like I said my actor friend kindly offered me to show me around Wellington aswell so he picked me up at 10am and we went to all those places like Mt. Victoria (where someone asked for my friend' autograph and picture..that was weird). We then went to various places like WETA Workshop, WETA Digital, Peter Jacksons ( Read more... )

 Day 11: It's back to Auckland on the traiiiiiiinnnn..."The Overlander" is a very touristy train that takes 12 hours but gives you a lot of information about the places you are passing and New Zealand in general. Very nice...

Day 12-13: another 2 days cruising around Auckland with Craig and mates...we went to various places I can't remember anymore ( Read more... )

 Day 14: flight back to Munich via Los Angeles and London :-( :-( :-( I don't wanna speak about it as it was to sad...when we left Auckland we were heading towards Fiji and got in bad turbulences which woke me up every 2 minutes...it then got calmer..Los Angeles Airport was aweful, old transit lounge, unfriendly people, lloooooong time queuing for ( Read more... )

 
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