I have found a free Internet connection here in the YHA hostel where I am staying on Central Auckland which cool. Wireless internet connections are normally really expensive in NZ unless you are prepared to sign up for a year!

I am still on the look out for a car but I am going to attend a couple of car fairs this weekend and hopefully I can pick one up and drive off down to the Tongariro National Park and try out my newly broken walking boots.

I have had a very poor first half of December on the earnings front but things have picked up a bit over the last few days and I should at least be able to match last December.