Nelson, Franz Josef and Wanaka 1st April - 7th April 09 Got to Nelson not much here but this is where the centre of New Zealand is, we went to try and find the hill where this actually was, but could find it so ended up back at the Hostel for beer tasting…J at the end was a prize and yep I won it…LA LA LA!!!! Lol it was a night out in Queenstown (bar crawl) I was supposed to go to Abel Tasman (which is supposed to be stunning, but ended up getting tonsili...

Waitomo Caves, Taupo and Wellington 25th March – 1st April 09 We leave Rotorua and head towards this park just outside, Me and ellen have a ride on a Agro-Jet and have a wonder about this random little farm – sit on a tractor and a massive border collie! We leave here and end up driving to Waitomo Caves, to do black water rafting and see the Glow worms (Found out that they are actually just big maggots with poo that glows, they then turn into flys with no ...

Thursday 19th March 09 On the way to our next stop - Rotorua we stopped off in Hobbiton, th efilming location of Lord of the Rings, didnt stay here long it was just a quick photo stop... We then got into Rotorua where we did Lugeing! it was so funny...i was almost wetting myself as we went down the scenic route first which is the first route you have to go down to get the hang of it! (its basically go-karting down a massive track! We all found it relatively eas...

15th March - 17th March 2009 This morning we woke up with the dogs howling - great alarm!! hmmmm!! :/ we got to milk camembert and fred the pig and some other calfs which was pretty cool. we then left and started to drive up to Cape Reinga - Amazing place - this is where the two oceans meet - but we could see the line (which is how you can tell where they meet) went onto the 90 mile beach and then left to go down to Dargarville. What a weird little place this ...

Today we picked up the car and drive from Auckland to Paihia stopping of at loads of little places along the way. the scenery is fantastic!! We stopped of at this little random shop along the way - and we had some Hokey Pokey on the bonnet of our car (its an ice cream by the way!) the owner of the shop started chatting to us and was asking where we were from - Ellen gave me a tip and said noone will ever know where we live so just say North London - do we did - h...