New Zealand - North Island After having so much fun on the South Island, it came as no surprise that there wasn't as much money to spend in the North. It's a good job that the Wellington Te Papa museum only requires a small donation to get in. The musuem itself is the pride of Wellington and it shows with floors and floors of exhibits dedicated to showing people what NZ is all about. After a hard day at the museum, and with money tight, we decided that we had to...

NZ - South Island After seven fantastic months we finally left sunny Australia for the shores of not so sunny New Zealand. We landed very late in Christchurch and quickly found our hostel and went straight to sleep, before waking to a pretty cloudy and cold morning (just like home!). Christchurch itself is pretty small compared to the other major cities we have visited so far, so we quickly found our bearings and headed for the information centre to find out a...