Yesterday we drove from Christchurch to Franz Joseph. We stopped in Greymouth for a lunch break. The journey took altogether around 7 hours. The weather was terrible. Heavy, heavy, non-stop rain so we decided not to do any excursions at Franz Joseph. Today, we drove from Franz Joseph to Fox glacier. The weather was still apalling but we decided to go ahead and do the glacier walk/hike anyway. It was really tiring but definitely worth it. The hike took around 4 ho...

So we arrived at the airport at 9.30pm for our flight at midnight on the 19th November. We were already stressed as we had a big argument with our taxi driver (even though he didnt speak a word of english..) Once at the airport we realised that there was no flight at midnight, it was actually going to leave at 2.30am! That meant we would miss our connecting flight at Aukland!! So, we sat at Buenos Aires airport for 5 hours playing cards. The flight was 15 hours l...