{"id":10943,"date":"2012-10-21T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2012-10-21T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:42:45","slug":"arrival-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=10943","title":{"rendered":"Arrival in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left Cambridge at 9am on Sunday the 14th October and arrived in Auckland at 2pm on Tuesday the 16th with brief stops at Dubai, Kuala Lumpur &amp; Melbourne on the way. Thats 43 hours \u00a0straight without any proper sleep.<\/p>\n<p>First job in Auckland was to try and get my D550 camera fixed as it went totally dead on the way over. It wasn&#8217;t the battery and so I ended up buying a second hand body from Camera &amp; Camera on Queen street for about $599 \ud83d\ude41 an expensive start to the trip. Next job was to sort out the iPhone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10946\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_00031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10946\" title=\"3 charges in New Zealand\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"text from 3\" width=\"232\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome text from 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three had kindly sent me a text \u00a0on arrival offering internet at \u00a36,000 a GB in New Zealand. I thought that just a tad to expensive&#8230; So I went over to Vodafone where I quickly was set up with a 2GB \/ 1 month Supa Prepay Broadband+ package complete with iPhone5 SIM for $50 a month a saving of \u00a3\u00a35,960 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10945\" title=\"Emily Place\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2311-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Place sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After all that excitement it was off for a well needed sleep at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jucyhotel.com\/\">Jucy&#8217;s hostel<\/a>. in Emily Place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Cambridge at 9am on Sunday the 14th October and arrived in Auckland at 2pm on Tuesday the 16th with brief stops at Dubai, Kuala Lumpur &amp; Melbourne on the way. Thats 43 hours \u00a0straight without any proper sleep. First job in Auckland was to try and get my D550 camera fixed as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}