Kia Ora!
(meaning "welcome" in Maori)
Auckland City of Sails gennant also has more boats per capita than anywhere else in the world. Auckland is also in 5th place among the international cities with the highest quality of life. I can only confirm this. If New Zealand would not be so far away, I would immediately pull to Auckland.
The city has everything you need: enough space for a house with a garden in the city, the sea right outside the front door with clean beaches and great water quality, lots of culture and an adequate nightlife. I can not To describe what does Auckland and New Zealand for me. Even after 7! Years, I still feel like home. I like the kind of people (very calm, very friendly and positive attitude to life - work and career are not as important as in Europe), the slow pace of New Zealand's vibrant metropolis, the nature of many space jederhat his (own house Garden in the city and you rarely put in traffic) and much more. In Sydney we had to first wait for about 1 hour, since our aircraft could be evacuated to a sick passenger and the aircraft had to be disinfected. Greetings from the swine flu, so far she has not visited us yet, fortunately :-) or "toi, toi say "such as the Bremer. ... Yeah, Bremer Interestingly, it was then when we sat on the plane and I was briefly distracted by my fear of flying. What could distract me well ... Suddenly came about 30 large, broad-shouldered and well built men in the plane to my seat over. were the big man! As it turned out we were flying with the Australian National Rugby team !!!!!!!! you 2 days later played against the All Blacks, the New Zealand Rugby Team . Unfortunately, the game was sold out .... So the flight was not as bad as feared :-)
After more meticulous security checks about us had to endure (a dog saw me from far away and jumped on me ruthlessly. No nice picture when you see a dog running at you from afar ... Also was selected Michael to participate in an explosives investigation. With his beard and long hair were as well .. Voruteile in the game), we jumped in our merry-art, Japanese, white, 10 years old Sunny and drove to some errors on my old host family in the idyllic district Glendowie / St. Heliers.
While Sandra were all old memories that were brought back to life was, for me everything from scratch! We were both excited. When we arrived but when Gilly and Allen, I knew everything will be fine! The two were so, Sandra again after the long time and I joined (I think) together with the heart. So we have another great starting point for our journey through New Zealand, where we can leave our things are allowed, spend the night, night and get a glass of red wine (or two or three ....) Also, the three dogs and a cat were happy about the variety and partly hidden under or in our bed! 
In the first three days we spent in Auckland, Sandra showed me the town, the beaches, and their familiar places, including the famous city beach 'Mission Bay' and the pittoresque Mt Eden, an old volcano that looks like a green rest in the crater and can serve as a lookout. Unfortunately, we had get enough time to get Auckland to look more closely, but at the end of the New Zealand trip, we will still have a couple of days just for the city, and even more photos .... Meeting Kiwi - or a football idol from near
is about three quarters of a year ago that we sat in Berlin, at the birthday celebration of the Rikke, and told us the Benni, that the brother a miner now in Auckland at Wynton Rufer Soccer School works. Great story! Nine months later, so we sit with Wynton Rufer at the office and wait for our rendezvous, we had started by someone nice. It was cold because the heaters were all down. Proper heating is not always there in NZ, mobile only small electric heaters that you put in the sockets and turns when necessary. That business, however, should I write (it is Sandra), other heaters that you put to bed, electric mattress so. That warm the bed to be nice, because before one must put in a cold. Electrical Handtuchwaermer are also standard.
So, back to football. When I was little, I had already won Werderfan. Long live green and white (NOT the bath Salty Carnival Association, Sandra throws a da!). Wynton Rufer has always been my favorite football player, a star on the court, and a model human, just like me. Penalties he could well, and he was not only German master, but (expert know it) also won the European Cup Winners' Cup against Monaco. He shot us to victory in Naples, and was Player of the Century in Oceania chosen. So, since we knew that we would travel to New Zealand, the conversation I had in mind from the birthday celebration. Under the honest pretext of visiting him, I asked for an appointment. And since we were already in a small wooden house that belonged to the adjacent church. He had short pants: a real New Zealanders!
So, long story ... Wynton has taken time for an hour, and with us and Norman (the general manager, and friend of the buddy's brother) and the other German intern from Luebeck about football, his school and Werder's prospects in the new season chat. Was a great experience to meet my old heroes. The beat is super nice, very relaxed, speaks fluent German with Kiwi accent and lives for football. His 'Soccer School of Excellence' brings free children at football and social value and is funded by sponsors (eg New Zealand apples "Yummi") and Gluecksspielsteuer. It is amazing how he uses for the New Zealand fringe sport football and his time and energy applying for it to inspire children and to train. Some of his schuetzling are already successful youth players in Europe, including his son.
So, long story ... Wynton has taken time for an hour, and with us and Norman (the general manager, and friend of the buddy's brother) and the other German intern from Luebeck about football, his school and Werder's prospects in the new season chat. Was a great experience to meet my old heroes. The beat is super nice, very relaxed, speaks fluent German with Kiwi accent and lives for football. His 'Soccer School of Excellence' brings free children at football and social value and is funded by sponsors (eg New Zealand apples "Yummi") and Gluecksspielsteuer. It is amazing how he uses for the New Zealand fringe sport football and his time and energy applying for it to inspire children and to train. Some of his schuetzling are already successful youth players in Europe, including his son. If interested: http://www.wynrs.co.nz/
Monaco 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdk9zq7Y68
evening we sat with Norman and his friend Katja and spontaneously collected five other Germans, in a cool bar around the fireplace, including a couple of coaches from the school.
The next day we left then, to cross the country I now know only from stories and from Lord of the Rings "!
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