still been having an awesome time since i got rid of tpo, was even thinking of extending my flight and travelling up to cairns, but it turns out singapore airlines employees are incompetent cretins and don't know how to change it, so that plans out the window. so anyway since sydney ive been travelling up the coast towards brisbane, stopping at newcastle, port macquarie, coffs harbour and currently in byron bay. went on a wine tasting tour in newcastle which was ...

completely lost track of dates now so this will turn up after the last entry i wrote even though we were in melbourne before sydney. never mind eh. right, so we turned up in melbourne and walked round for about an hour with the massive bags trying to find williams, who had taken a different flight again, and eventually bumped into him coming out of a shop. standard. ended up in a hostel seemingly entirely populated by japanese people, although our room turned out...

alrite, theres been a bit of a major development the last few days. basically tpo has been running low on cash since, well LA, and has realised he cant really afford the rest of the trip so has had to move his flight forwards bout 5 days i think. i didn't really want to rush up the east coast with him then be stuck in brisbane for 5 days after he leaves, so after looking into the various options we decided the only thing for it really was to split up. so i packed...

south island in COLD! not quite the -12C that we had been told, but pretty chilly nonetheless. having learnt our lesson after the north island debacle, we had hired a car in advance, the aptly named el cheapo. el cheapo was a pretty rickety white 4 door mazda, automatic transmission which was pretty gay, but otherwise suited our needs perfectly and we basically arrived at the airport and hit the road immediately, we had like 5 days to see the whole island, which ...

in melbourne now, so this is now almost 2 weeks behind, catching up tho! turned up in auckland bout midday after a pretty gay flight, mainly cos the only film on was firehouse dog, not ideal. once again we had failed to organise anything beforehand, although this time it didn't really pay off like usual. basically because we had to be in auckland in 3 days time to meet up with williams again the plan was to hire a car down to rotorua, spend a night there, go back...