Today we walked into Nelson town centre and popped into the toursit information centre to pick up some leaflets. We thought we would try and find a beach but after walking around for ages not really knowing where we were, we thought we should head back and go another day when we have a map! After lunch we lounged around by the pool.

Today we had to catch our bus at 8am which took us to the ferry port. We caught the 9.30am crossing over to Picton on the South Island. It took 3 hours and our bus was waiting for us the otherside, very efficient! The bus continued for a couple of hours until we arrived in Nelson, Nelson is supposed to be the sunshine capital of NZ we're hoping it lives up to its reputation. The hostel we are in is lovely, it has a swimming pool, spa and sauna!

Today was our last day in Wellington and we couldn't decide what to do, we have done pretty much all we wanted to do here so we just had a wonder around. We ended up down by the water front where we found thousands of people all heading towards the pier so we decided to follow. It turned out that the Birdman competition was on today so we ended up watching that for a while. We did have a great view and a nice seat but this great big boat decided to pull up rig...

Well today was quite cloudy to begin with, we seem to always have one really good day for weather then a really bad one. Mind you Wellington doesn't have a great reputation for nice weather. This morning we headed for the Parliament buildings and had a look round them, i have to say not as impressive as ours. This afternoon we walked to the other side of the town and sat by the water as the sun decided to come out.

quality day! we woke up to a beautiful sunny day not one cloud in the sky. So we thought we would make the most of it and head for the beach. We caught the bus to a place called Miramar (no not Top Gun), in this town Weta Studios is based (where all the special effects were created for LOTR). We went to the beach for most of the morning but decided to head back to the town to try and find the studios even though we knew we couldn't go in them. Well we couldn...