After leaving Queenstown we headed north up to Wanaka where we found a room for the night. The town is fairly small but had enough to keep us going and the next morning we drove out through a huge glacial valley and farmland to the start of the 'Rob Roy' track, a 10km hike to see our first glacier. It was a beautiful walk up a valley with an amazing view at the top. After returning to Wanaka to stock up on supplies we headed further north to Fox Glacier where we ...

Our flight arrived in the beautiful Queenstown in the early afternoon, luckily the sky had been clear and we had an amazing view of Milford Sounds and the surrounding area- saves getting a heli- tour! At the airport Gwenno was again selected at random for an explosives test, and we had our tent scanned for any micro-organisms that we might bring into the country so it took quite a while to clear security in the end. By the time we got to Queenstown we were starvi...

We arrived in Sydney late in the afternoon feeling a little bit tired and a bit mucky from the sleepless night before. Luckily our friends in Brisbane had given us the number of some friends in Sydney and Alicia and Jules had offered to let us park up and stay in their city centre flat whilst in Sydney. This was much appreciated as even to park the car would have cost upwards of £40 a day! Even though we hadn't met them before we got on well and headed out for s...

We had a early flight down to Brisbane and were picked up by Andrew ( Ben's friend from college) to go and stay at his and his fiancé Claire's flat for a few days. We spent 2 days seeing the sights in Brisbane which included a lot more walking, a visit to the city art gallery (including a short nap on some sofa's), a walk along the river and the obligatory tour of the XXXX factory with some sampling at the end. It was great to catch up with Andrew and also to sl...

After a fairly uncomfortable overnight flight from Singapore we arrived in Cairns and the first thing that we did was check into our hostel and get some sleep! We woke up a few hours later and met our 2 dorm companions, both of which had been living at the hostel for about a month and working in the area. We were surprised at how small Cairns is especially in the centre, but were impressed with the free and well maintained public pool, parks and BBQ. We had ori...