so back in queenstown, it almost felt like coming home! so good to see everyone again. Friday had a big night out, i was meant to be taking my bus crew on a pub crawl but was too wasted when i met them. spent all of saturday in bed being sick. then this couple come back and start having sex. urgh. did a bungee on friday, was mental. at the end of our trip now! it has been so good, gonna be a mental last night tonight. see u all soon!xxx

So we stayed in greymouth for one night and there's not a whole lot to do but there is a brewery tour... Therefore drank as much as i could to get my monies worth of beer, then me and some others off my bus went to the pub. Drank a lot more and while we were there noticed a very tall bong-like container. After enquiring, learned it was a 'yard of beer' beer glass. Of course I couldn't pass up the oppertunity... The next day the bus ride was inevitably hard a...

So arrived in Nelson on Saturday. Staying in the nicest hostel- it has a swimming pool, sauna, spa plus free breakfast and dinner! Yesterday Donna left to head back to queenstown and I stayed on to visit Abel Tasman National Park. I went on a boat ride which drops you off in the middle of the park to start a 4hour trek back. I did it in 2 and found myself in the middle of nowhere with noone around at the end. It was also raining really hard and I had no wate...

So went from auckland to rotorua where we arrived in the evening and went to a polynesian spa. These are spas which are heated through the natural springs occuring as it's a geothermal area. The whole place stinks of rotten eggs but the geothermal activity is cool. On the way to Taupo the next day we saw Lady Knox Geyser erupt and saw mud pools. Then when we got to Taupo Donna and I went horse trekking through the 'craters of the moon' which are natural hot sprin...

so... mt maunganui was really lovely but it is a holiday place for the rich folk of auckland, therefore pretty dead this time of year. Meant i got the beach all to myself at 6am which was amazing. carried on to Auckland. It is a fast paced city, full of japanese. Quite dirty. Prostitution is legal and you really see that in auckland! but on the whole, an ok city. still don't have much time for city's though, going to go white water rafting tomorro...