We've now arrived in Auckland and handed back our camper this morning. It's so nice not to have to worry about parking it and to not have wrestle with the jigsaw bed ever again!! Its also quite sad because it's been our trusty home for the past month. Oh well, back to hostel beds it is!!!!! We've had a wonder round the city this afternoon. Its strange to be in a big, fast paced city again after all of the country towns we've stayed in!! Think we're goin...

Today was flying day for the two of us! It started with climbing into a very sexy red jumpsuit, then being fitted to a harness and given a hat, goggles and some gloves. After being shown a safety video, we were marched out to a tiny plane. As the plane climbed and climbed working its way up to 12000ft, we were connected to our flying buddies. Then the doors opened and out jumped Dave - then it was my turn. There was no time to be scared or to hesitate...

hello again we've seen most of the south island since last time we wrote. we drove down to Milford Sound which was............wet, we got there and survived the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in 24hrs. we thought that our 'cruise' the next day would be cancelled but far from it, the crew were like tourists as they said they'd never seen so many waterfalls (there are only normally 4 on a calm day). Pen took some brilliant photos as the sun broke throug...

baaaaaaaaaaaaa we arrived in New Zealand on Monday night, and found our keys stuck on the side of the fridge and our sheets by the boiler (v.friendly these kiwi's). we spent the next day exploring christchurch, it has lots of british influences e.g a river avon!! Then we picked up of camper, its a proper campervan as the people at the company told us it'd be too chilly to take one with a roof tent, so we've got the Big Burd (Registration no. BUR791), she's s...