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Auckland, New Zealand

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"Auckland is a shithole" Jonathan After 24 hours spent at the Guangzhou airport I finally managed to board the flight to Auckland which involved changing details on my New Zealand's Nzeta visa as apparently I put in wrong point of entry (I never been asked about that while filling in the form but hey). During the flight I sat next to New Zealander Jonathan living with his Dutch girlfriend Anna in Netherlands and coming back for his brother's wedding on one of the islands surrounding Auckland, when asked what food he would recommend me he said that NZ being a young nation doesn't have that much of a culinary tradition and I should probably stick with having barbeques whenever possible. First challenge after we landed wasn't as I was expecting finalizing the visa, that took only few minutes and a nice chat with the border control officer followed by a simple stamp in the passport. The problem was a baggage check as you are not allowed to bring certain fruits, ve...