We left lay-by for Picton, it was only 20 minutes drive there. As seeing that we are at Marlborough district, I am not surprised to see hundreds of vineyard next to both side of road, it impossible to miss them! We even saw the famously Stoneleigh vineyard. Anyway, we went to centre of town. It was so cute, it just basically one street filled with old fashioned building, most of them are unique and locally business rather than chain (primark etc). At the end of t...

Got up early as our next destination was 4 hours away. We left Greymouth for Nelson. Sara was navigating for Charlene. We finally arrived at Nelson at around lunch time. We walked around the town and went for i-Site to collect informations etc. We then went to the famous cathedral of Nelson. I was amazed as the building is very beautiful and detailed. We walked around the inside of cathedral. We then went to Nelson's famous South Street which is full of preserved...

We made the most of the shower in campsite as the next two days we will be staying at lay-by which obviously don't have shower. Beside our campervan do have shower but we refused to use it as it was so tiny and it would use up all the fresh water from our tank. Anyway, we left Wanaka for Franz Josef at around 7.30am to arrive there for 12 noon, it was 5 hours drive there. As we drove, we saw plenty of beautiful snow covered mountains and thousand of sheep! We dro...

Waking up early today, getting ready and making sure we have plenty of warm clothes on! We walked to the campsite's gate at 7.45am to wait for our shuttle bus to take us to Cardrona Alpine for skiing!! We couldn't wait especially Charlene and Asher where they will have lesson. Three of us knew how to do it. As large coach drove around the sharp bends to get the top of mountain, we was relieved that we arrived at the top! We went for the rental area where we will ...

We left Queenstown without any problem - unlikely yesterday! Dominic was responsible for direction to Wanaka (it was only an hour). We as we drove, I noticed that we are going through mountain with full of sharp bends, along with steep cliff beside us! I looked at the map and realised that we went on the shortcut to Wanaka which we shouldn't (we should have gone to sealed road). But Charlene was very confident and we got Wanaka safely. We firstly went to Lakeside...