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I was born in Durban but spent years 2-8 in England. When we moved back to Durbs we lived many years in the city Centre. Smith Street mostly. The city was beautiful then. It was clean and safe. Window shopping was a regular Sunday family activity to do after a Sunday roast. Garlicks was my favourite shop. But sadly, although the beachfront looks lovely, Smith and West Street look awful. I recently spent a couple of days with family who live in the Davenport area. My late Gran used to live in Davenport Square and it was beautiful back then. But the amount of household waste on the streets is dire. Even the condition of the roads and pavements is shocking. I live in Hibberdene now and we have a great community of locals who strive to keep it a "Tidy Town". Durban's city Centre needs that too.

A very quick move through what looks to be a beautiful area. There wasn't much detail about the places you went to. I would have liked to know more about the food, the ambiance, what other facilities were offered by the places so that I would be encouraged to visit them. Perhaps that's not what your vlog is normally about.

At 12m50s you mentioned you stopped often to take a photo of another mountain or river or coastline. You left out "and to have another ham n cheese sammidge"

Good on you, looks looks like y'all had a great time.. shame you didn't use "first table" for eating out, half price for max of 4 people.. but brais are delish too

Thank you so much! Such a great and informative vlog. 👍👏It's actually very affordable considering it's for four people on a two-week trip. Great planning, guys.👌 Chantal, you are a great reporter.💖 I m keeping this vlog as a reference material for our future planning. 🥰 Lots of love to both of you💖, and I hope your parents are doing great.💕💕

Hi,Thanks for all informations..we are planning to visit south New Zealand from 26th of décember to 11 thé of january,and I would like to know the temperatures at this period could you tell me please? Big kisses from Réunion Island ❤

Loved this! Thanks for sharing, really good to see the price comparisons too.

I believe this trip was well worth every cent. Planing was definitely key to the trip success. Sandwiches on a road trip is more of a personal preference😋 It reminds me of the old days when there were not many shops on long road trips. Thanks very much Chantz and Craig for the breakdown and explanations, it really helps alot to know these things before going on such a long trip😇🙏👍

So wonderful. I’ve been following you guys for a while now and it’s always inspiring to experience your trips and excursions. We are a richer and a wealthier society with you here. Thank you so much for taking the time and energy to record your life and to share it with the world and your kiwi family.

hey guys, do you know where to go in international departures to find security and passport control? will be returning back to the UK from OR Tambo

Rachel Martin Coffee shop Pumre oraki Bas walk block walk bridge Meadowlands Mt Wellington Pumure Forrow market

Rachel Martin East device Auckland City asked Mrs Anne Martin train 🚃

Malls are tiny in nz

Always windy and cold not to mention that it rains three times more in New Zealand than it does in South Africa and the sea water is always ice cold

Goodbye

How much was it for 1 night per person ?

Yup , you will be doing alot of moving in nz , thars why nearly everyone rents and its so dam expensive for tiny rentals

Prices are nearly double than jn South Africa 😂

And you need a script for Voltaren pain tables, why ? Because nz have a huge problem with substance abuse

How dud you do your solo safe analysis, congratulations for being a solo female

Lovely couples best wishes from India 🇮🇳🤝🏻🎉

Reality check about NZ, my wife, my son and I moved here December 2023: 1. Bloody hard to find a job here, both my wife and I have degrees and loads of experience. In SA you will get discriminated against for being white. Here you will be discriminated against for being foreign. You will hear nonsense like "you don't have enough kiwi experience". You will pay no less than $500 to have your degree checked by some professor who works for NZQA, you will pay or you will stay. 2. NZ VISA laws change all the time. Even if you have a job here, don't think you will just move between jobs, the new VISA laws make it bloody hard for employers to employ foreigners, they have to jump through loads of hoops to get you employed, quite frankly, NZ employers don't want to go through all that trouble, so they pick people who already have residence or permanent residence. 3. NZ government loves money more than the ANC. The difference between a 1st world and 3rd world country is that in a 1st world country they use technology to better govern you, to keep your ass nailed to the wall all the time. You WILL pay for parking, if you are lucky it will be $18 for a day, most of the time it is closer to $40 a day. NZ government employs people to drive around in little AT (Auckland Transport) cars with 4 cameras on the roof to scan plates - Trust me, you will pay for parking, you will not escape it. 4. NZ government likes to screw migrants over. For example, I am a software engineer but I was qualified as an electrician when I was younger. I wanted to register my qualification here also (I was an electrician for nearly a decade). NZ allows this, you will pay $1500 (nearly R20 000.00) just to be told that you are a sucker and they want you to work for them for no less than 2000 hours, supervised by a qualified electrician and then you can apply to be registered as an electrician, they will decide. Think it's easy? Go check point 1, think I am lying? Come here and try for yourself. 5. NZ is crazy expensive, if you think you will survive here on the "hubby's" salary, guess again. There is a reason why thousands of Kiwi's are leaving for Aus. 6. If you are true Saffa, you will miss home a lot more than you realize. You will miss seeing animals when walking through the bush, you will miss sunshine, you will miss your family, you will miss many..many things. 7. I know a few Saffas here who are very happy in NZ, but I can tell you now that most of them love it here so much because they've got to a point where they hate South-Africa, they don't even want to be called Saffas anymore, they want to be known as Kiwi's. It's easy to walk away from something when you hate it. 8. If you like sunshine and hot weather, NZ is not for you, don't believe the nonsense on google that says it doesn't rain so much. Most people get jobs in Auckland, and it doesn't rain in Auckland, it pours. 9. Don't believe a word the NZ immigration consultants tell you from SA, they are all a bunch of liars that want your money. They will tell you nonsense like you will come to NZ and within a week you fill find a job. There are plenty of Saffas here that are suffering because of stupidity on their part and because they listened to those blood sucking liars who call themselves immigration consultants. If you don't believe me, go join the facebook group for Saffas in NZ, read and see the complaints and pleas for yourself. 10. If you are a christian it will be even harder for you here - these people love to be "inclusive" and all kinds of other nonsense. They blaspheme Christ everywhere. They don't dare blaspheme any other god or thing, but when it comes to Christ you can know for a fact they will blaspheme Him. There are christians in NZ, but they are few and far between. 11. Think the police is better here? Not a chance, they have their fare share of taking 40 minutes plus to respond to violent house breakings. Think the medical situation is better here, not a chance, if you don't have private medical aid you will wait months before you can see a specialist. Just last week a lady I know off, her father was in a dire situation, they called for an ambulance, an hour later they were still waiting? Sure I guess you can argue they are stupid, why not just jump in the car and drive to the hospital? This is not an isolated story, another woman who's son got beaten up in Auckland took her son to the hospital, they waited 8 hours before a doctor came to see them because the son's face was smashed in but he "seemed" ok, no one bothered to check internal bleeding or anything like that. If you think the medical situation in NZ is good, you are under some serious disillusionment. 12. Did the bastards in SA tell you that you will only pay $50 or so to see a dentist? Ha, you will pay at least $70 only for the consultation, then the money hemorrhadge starts. You will pay no less than $1600 for a root canal (nearly R20 000.00). 13. NZ life is for the rich. If you come here with your family and earn $120 000.00 a year then you will only just survive. If you can get a lot more than this you will be happy, because in NZ you can have it all as long as you pay it all. 14. Think NZ is prettier than SA, well that depends on what you think is beautiful. If you like the desert then NZ is ugly, if you like tropical then NZ is spectacularly beautiful. But still, no animals, some birds here and there maybe, but nothing even close to what we have in SA. 15. If you think you are going to come to NZ for a better life, you are in for a surprise. It will most probably be a lot crappier life for a long time before it will become a "better" life. To be honest, the only thing that is better here is that there is less violent crime and no JuJu's or Andile's running around calling for the mass murder of white folks, or even the cats and dogs of white folks. Even so, if you have family in SA you will be worried about them, so your soul never really finds rest for itself. 16. Do you like driving slow, NZ is for you, you can keep to a pace of 50km/h at your hearts desire. I will say, there are places on the highways where even the kiwi's don't care and they push their cars to 140km/h, but you do this at great risk. Remember what I said about technology usage in NZ. If you have questions for me you are welcome to respond to this post, I will get it and we can have a talk. Not saying don't come to NZ, just saying have your eyes wide open and understand, there is no bloody paradise anywhere on earth. Some saffas get lucky and they are living the dream in NZ, most of us don't get lucky, "jy sal klippe kou en jy sal gou uitvind...".

Thanks for the video!! Please let me know which Immigration Agency you used?

There's a trip from ingchanga to Botham Hill they are not doing the trip to kloof from ingchanga because of the floods the banks washed away on the rail line and the trip is due on the 29 30 June 2024 on the weekend so please do a video if will go thanks🎉❤❤❤

Can you please do some more RUclips videos of umgeni steam railway please

Love your vids 🎉❤

Overcast, wet and windy ...again

And the weather always windy and cold

$6 , and how did you get to the station and back?😂

Windy , its always windy wet and damp...simply summed up

At it again... tryjng so hard to make somethjng so simple a overrated video. Why not disclose costs?

Your videos are very informative 👏👌 keep up the good work

Thank you for sharing this informations

I love nzd imiss this tour❤

Montiville 😍

It's so weird seeing my neck of the woods (Mt Wellington) in a video haha, most people never bother to come here when they visit Auckland xD My gym shows up in a shot when you showed the Burger King near the Lola cafe LOL. My fave thing is that the gym is next door to fast food lol. I've never been to Lola myself, but the food looked great! Great video, you guys' enthusiasm is so infectious :D

South Africa banana 🍌 Republic unemployment 36 percent. People standing at traffic lights in South Africa with university degrees. Vat going up soon 21 percent in South Africa.

I'm surprised the train was operating on a public holiday. Almost every single long weekend in the last 5+ years AT have said they'll been out of operation for maintenace on the tracks. Loved seeing your walk up Mt Wellington. My goal last year was to walk up it 52 times in the year. I did manage to do it but was definitely forcing myself by halfway through the year, especially when I had to catch up a few from when I was away on holiday mid-year. Safe to say it didnt become a habit and have only gone up once this year 😂

SA has changed , i moved to Sacramento California

Moved to California , I miss Durbz

I’m a sixty six year old , and I appreciate what you do , keep it up

Beautiful! This was a greatvway to explore the surrounding area of Aucland👍💖 we looove your energy Chantal.😘💖. Great video. Lots of love to both of you💖💖💖💖

Lived in La Lucia in the days before Zuma and the floads, this brings back very good memories.

I have enjoyed a few of your posts , keep up the good work. Also don`t feed the ducks white bread it interferes with their reproductive system, I don`t know about other types of bread.

Wish I found this video before my last trip, It was hell getting from Auckland to Airport and the most stressed I’ve ever been on any holiday! Originally I wanted hotel pickup bus, they couldn’t help me, then waited for a taxi and it didn’t turn up before I called another company, then first taxi turned up and wouldn’t leave us alone until they found out what other company I called, I almost had to dial 111 😪

Very cool video!

Nice video GoPro is working well here

Great video, awesome to see another SA youtuber living in NZ!

I remember back in the 90s when a classmate asked me, how was Roma Revolting 😂😂😂. Was a kid back then and used to go to Roma often with my parents. Haven't been to Durban for 20 years.. so nostalgic 😢

New to the family- this is my second vid - cant wait to see more videos 💙🙏🏾🔥🍻🍾