Hello People! We are now back in Queenstown after another active week but we have now completed all our adventure activities in New Zealand. Last Friday we went white water rafting on the Kawarau River which was lots of fun. We had to do grade 3 rafting as the water levels on the grade 5 Shotover River were too low but we still had to conquer a few hair raising rapids and all got very wet. Fortunately, back at the rafting base we took full advantage of the free ...

Morning everyone! We have had quite an action packed few days since we last wrote. We arrived in Franz Josef on Sunday and spent a miserable rainy afternoon and evening watching DVD's in our van (that wasn't quite so action packed but it gets better!). On Monday we climbed part of the Franz Josef glacier which in total was about 7hours of walking/climbing up and down the ice. We were given lots of warm clothing and had about 5 layers on as it was rather chill...

Kia Ora! For anyone who was worried Sam finally recovered her bag late Saturday evening - we weren't panicking too much !! We spent a really nice weekend in Christchurch, going out for a nice veggie meal on Sat night at a place called Dux De Lux and then on Sunday we went for a rather civilised punt down the river with a very eccentric punter man who told us some random facts about Christchurch and bored us with his not-so-funny jokes. We were very excited on Mo...

Kia Ora! We have made it to New Zealand where so far it has been rather chilly!! We spent Monday in Auckland and had lunch on the Harbour front where the sun did come out for a little bit. Not much to report from Auckland as there wasn't loads to do so we went shopping for some warm clothes which im sure will come in very handy. Tuesday morning we picked up our hire car, which was in much better condition than the last one we hired in Australia, and headed so...