K and I left Auckland and headed down south to Tauranga on Tuesday. We had decided it was hopeless and boring to continue staying in Auckland cause there were no jobs, so many Asians, and nothing much to see and do.
We reached Tauranga after a 3 hour drive. On the way, we stopped over at Pokeno to check out the biggest ice cream, upon recommendation of our previous hosts. True enough, there were 2 shops selling like 16 scoops of ice cream on a cone! I had 2 scoops only. We had lunch there, and then headed off to find accommodation.
Luck was not with us, cause most of the backpackers that we had short listed were out of rooms. Part of me blamed K cause he refused to let me call up the backpackers hostels cause of the expensive phone charges. Instead, he insisted we drive down and ask instead.
After about 45 minutes of fruitless attempts at finding us accommodation, we drove into a guesthouse called Seagulls. They advertised their rates at “From $65 a night”, so we thought it must be expensive. But I was glad we tried it anyway. We managed to get a really decent room with double bed plus attached toilet for $270 per week for both of us. Here are some pictures of our room:
The next day, we woke at late.. seems like even though i am on holiday, i have been waking up early every day.. but it's always to go shopping or sight seeing lah.. haha.. so shouldn't complain too much. We woke up around 11am, had sandwiches for breakfast.. then headed out for some exploring around our area. We also started our job search and went into almost every fruit orchard in the area. We finally found a job packing kiwis at a packhouse in Te Puke, and will start the following day. Our first job!! = )
For dinner, we had Chinese buffet at a restaurant called "Peking Restaurant". Very nice chinese food. Got lemon chicken, fried rice, fried noodles, sweet and sour pork, fu yong egg, vegetables etc.. and free chrysanthemum tea and dessert. After dinner, we headed home early and slept early to prepare for our first day of kiwi packing the next day!!
We reached Tauranga after a 3 hour drive. On the way, we stopped over at Pokeno to check out the biggest ice cream, upon recommendation of our previous hosts. True enough, there were 2 shops selling like 16 scoops of ice cream on a cone! I had 2 scoops only. We had lunch there, and then headed off to find accommodation.
Luck was not with us, cause most of the backpackers that we had short listed were out of rooms. Part of me blamed K cause he refused to let me call up the backpackers hostels cause of the expensive phone charges. Instead, he insisted we drive down and ask instead.
After about 45 minutes of fruitless attempts at finding us accommodation, we drove into a guesthouse called Seagulls. They advertised their rates at “From $65 a night”, so we thought it must be expensive. But I was glad we tried it anyway. We managed to get a really decent room with double bed plus attached toilet for $270 per week for both of us. Here are some pictures of our room:
The next day, we woke at late.. seems like even though i am on holiday, i have been waking up early every day.. but it's always to go shopping or sight seeing lah.. haha.. so shouldn't complain too much. We woke up around 11am, had sandwiches for breakfast.. then headed out for some exploring around our area. We also started our job search and went into almost every fruit orchard in the area. We finally found a job packing kiwis at a packhouse in Te Puke, and will start the following day. Our first job!! = )For dinner, we had Chinese buffet at a restaurant called "Peking Restaurant". Very nice chinese food. Got lemon chicken, fried rice, fried noodles, sweet and sour pork, fu yong egg, vegetables etc.. and free chrysanthemum tea and dessert. After dinner, we headed home early and slept early to prepare for our first day of kiwi packing the next day!!
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