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...

Bula! (that means hello in Fijian)After arriving in Fiji we spent our first night in the town of Nadi on the main island of Viti Levu, but not before sampling the local drink called kava which was offered to us as soon as we got out of the airport by our taxi driver! We had to be polite and accept the drink but it looked and tasted like brown muddy water - not the nicest! Hostel was ok, we had our own room which was nice and that evening we sat in the bar and tri...

G'day Folks!We are sad to say that is our last ever blog from Australia! The weather hasn't been great for the past couple of days so we haven't been up to much apart from a bit of shopping (rainy days tend to be expensive over here!) and attempting to sunbathe despite the clouds. The only things worth mentioning are that we discovered a market stall that sold chocolate filled bananas, which were absolutely delicious and healthy at the same time! Also...