HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all It is the 1st of January and a new year is upon us! I hope that this year brings everyone good health and good times! My new years eve was a really good one! Neil, Rowan, Chris (some of the guys I have been hanging around with) and I went to the one day international cricket test match, between the New Zealand Black Caps and Sri Lanka! The weather was scorching hot all day and the atmosphere was buzzing, especially once the crown...

Hello all! Welcome back to the home of my travel gossip. Here is what I have been up to the last couple of weeks… Ok, so the last time I posted I was in Christchurch. Well to be honest my final days there weren’t much fun to be honest! This was due to the fact that I managed to get a stomach bug and so I didn’t feel too great, plus the last of the folks I had been traveling with the past two months left for Oz. But not one to let thing...

Hello all! At last I have found some time to write my next postcard! So without further ado….. On 25th of November, the guys and I (minus Dutchy) left Taupo and drove to Tawhai Falls, a rather beautiful nature reserve. After that we drove to Whakapapa and did a three hour walk around the base of Mount Ngauruhoe, otherwise known as Mount Doom! I got some cool photos of the mountain too. Nearby there were also snowy mountain ranges. We arrived at the River...