hey everyone! (last one) since San francisco we took a 17+ hour train ride to Chicago and stayed there for a week. Extremely hot weather so we did a lot of sunbathing in the parks and at the beach. The taste of Chicago festival was on while we were there which meant free concerts everyday so we saw a lot of free music and also saw th Counting Crows who were really good! After Chicago we went to Philadelphia and stayed in a really nice hostel in the park, which w...

hey everyone. san fransisco flew by, like the rest of the trip. here's a brief summary of our adventures there. our hostel was situated in a predominantly mexican area of the city, which was divided into neighbourhoods. we visited union square and chinatown on our first day, both very different. also we saw pier 39, alcatraz (very interesting with audio tour), japantown, goldengate park, castro, haight ashbury, all of these being main tourist attractions. san fra...

Hi everyone! so sorry its been so long been having far too good a time! um i think the last time we wrote was Wellington, so since then we went over to the South island to Nelson and stayed there for a few days and visited the actual centre of NZ which was pretty cool we then got on the bus with the group that we would stay with for a while until we got into Queenstown. during this time we travelled down the west coast and stayed in a few cool little townsn and m...

hey everyone, our next destination, following on from char's blog, was Taupo, a beautiful little town on a lake. here we did our skydive which was so much fun. we met some pretty cool people at the hostel and had some good nights out. we visited the hot pool and took a stroll around the lake. in general we really enjoyed this town. next we went on to river valley a very desolate location, where we did another walk. yesterday we arrived in wellington and explored...

Hey, sorry it's been so long but we've been extremely busy and done so much that we've had no time to write about it! we spent about a week in Auckland but mainly relaxed and did a lot of going to the cinema, clubs and drinking coffee!! were really happy to get out of the city and see some of the country! on our first bus we stopped off at hot water beach where you can dig yourself a little hot pool in the sand, absolutely boiling! then we went to cathederal cove...