Well, this isn't gonna be the kind of interesting and exciting first entry of New Zealand we'd hoped to be writing, more one of bad weather, frustration and decisions! We arrived last Saturday into Christchurch and all was well. We were so excited to finally be here. The hostel was nice, clean, friendly and at 2am that night United won the 18th. We'd settled in nicely and immediately. We were shattered to be honest as we'd put so much effort into getting around...

Salties, spiders, snakes, stingers, sharks and even shells tried, but none of them got us and we've made our escape to the instantly beautiful country of New Zealand! We spent our last week of Australia in Sydney, and it was a pretty awesome week. We'd opted for another overnight journey to Sydney, so it was 13 hours on the coach from 8pm Friday night to 9am Saturday morning. We slept intermittently, waking around 8.30 on the approach to Sydney. As we were look...