SYDNEY APRIL 11th-We arrived in Sydney on Friday at about 4.30 pm. We began our sight seeing the following day APRIL 12th-The weather here is much warmer than the south island of New Zealand but its just going into winter in Australia. Today we walked through Hyde Park, the botanical gardens which had loads of spiders just suspended mid walkway....a good introduction to Australia! Our walk took us to the Sydney harbour where we saw the Opera House and the harbou...

TAUPO TO WELLINGTON We said goodbye to Anita in napier and bye to Alex in taupo but Ricky joined us as we continued our kiwi tour. We left Napier on thurs 27th March and stayed 1 night in Taupo again before getting on the Kiwi buss friday morning and headed to River Valley 40 mins down the valley from Tie happy. We spent 1 night in River Valley. We went on a pully thing over the river to climb the mountain, then we had an amzing roast dinner, we ate loads, was s...

NEW ZEALAND-TAUPO TO NAPIER! We got off the Kiwi tour so we could get our own coach to Napier to see the Cricket. It was the 3rd and final test England vs New Zealand, so far we had both won a test. We booked our tickets in the UK we ended up going with 3 other people.Anita, Alex and Ricky. We arrived on good friday at the naffest hostel ever, i could write an essay on how bad it was. Nothing was open, no one was there and we couldn't buy alcohol as nowhere in ...

SOUTH ISLAND NZ We arrived on the south Island of New Zealand after a long and hard 3 hr ferry journey feeling incredibly rough and not just because of being sea sick! We left Picton with our new coach and driver Flea. We stayed 1st eve in Nelson at a pub. On 3rd April we headed to Westport. We did a little hike at Nelson lake and had a picnic lunch ($5 each) which our driver put together. Some people off the coach jumped off the jetty into the freezing Nelson...

NEW ZEALAND TO WAITOMO TO TAUPO On MON we went Luge-ing again in the morning as we and convinced more people off the bus to join us. It was a huge laugh loads of us racing each other and a special mention goes to Jamie who almost killed himself going crazy Luge-ing off the edge off a cliff (or so it appeared!) We headed to Waitomo where we did Black Water Rafting/Caving. See photos of us in wetsuits looking really cool and check out Penny's 'size' of wetsuit.......