Waiheke Island Stories


The home stretch

8/23/2010 Just passing through Auckland currently and will get to the Bay of Plenty and hopefully a winery before I leave. Can’t really say I have Auckland much of a look. Seems nice enough with a clean downtown area, nice restaurants and shops and no f##king parking. The last day in New Zealand was great. We went to an island just outside of Auck...


Island of wine

Friend Christine and her boyfriend, Nick, came over from Australia for part of the holidays. We went to Waiheke Island one day, called the island of wine. It’s just a 30 minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, but feels like a real escape from the city. The island does have year round residents. The main village is called Oneroa. Waiheke is slow-...


Scorbies news part 1

Dear all, After 42 hours I finally arrived to the promised land! Eva airlines, why was it cheaper? Maybe cause it does not really match the Asian standards, maybe because over 80 kg you do not fit in the chair, maybe cause Virgin buys their aircrafts, cause I had an unnounced extra stopover in Bangkok which the travel agency forgot to mention, c...