Hello there everyone! Thought it was about time that i let you know we're still alive.......sorry it's been so long since my last blog - it's just been go go go!! We spent Christmas and New Year in Sydney which was a lot of fun! Christmas day we took a picnic down to Coogee beach and devoured our chicken and cranberry sandwiches as we played games by the sea. Obviously it was no match for our traditional english christmas dinner but it was certainly a differen...

Hello everyone! Well we are in Melbourne Australia now so i think it's about time I updated this. I'll fill in the big gap....... We ended up spending 8 nights in Queenstown which were well worth it! On the 1st of Novemeber we had a long coach ride from Franz Joseph to get there. Along the way we stopped at Thunder Creek Falls, Lake Matherson and Lake Hawea. Lake Matherson was supposed to have a reflection of the snow capped mountains but it didn't because it wa...

Hey we're in Queenstown now which is great! We're here for a while so it's nice to chill out and lay in bed for a bit longer in the mornings!! As soon as we got here we sampled the FERGBURGER which has got to be the best burger i have ever had!! We met quite a few people on the way down here which is good, there's a crowd of us now hitting the bars at night! I'll just write a bit about the places that we stopped at on the way down here..... 27th/28th Oct - We s...

On the 23rd of Oct we made our way to Taupo on the Magic Bus and made a few interesting stops on the way. The first was to some bubbling geothermal mud pools and then see Lady Knox geyser errupt, which does so at 10:15 AM every morning which was pretty cool. Then we went on to Waiotapu where we saw several geothermal pools and craters - you can see one of the pools in the picture! The smell of the sulphur was pretty overwhelming and we had to run down a few of th...

Hello from New Zealand!! I thought it was about time I wrote an entry as we have been here over a week now and the adventure has definitely begun! After 3 nights and a few drinking sessions in Aukland we caught a bus up north to Paihia to discover the 'Bay of Islands.' Here there are 144 Islands which we got to view in a pretty cool way as we got the 'EXCITOR' speedboat.....and exciting it was indeed! It went at a rediculously fast speed and we crashed over huge ...