Hi everyone! As you know we have arrived in Sydney in Oz. We are staying in Manly right near the beach at the moment. The weather hasnt been great since we got here, cloudy but still hot and even rain a couple of days. Today was really hot and sunny though so we have been on the beach sunbathing all day topping up our tans before we go south to Melbourne and Tasmania. Our first few nights we stayed in the centre of Sydney city just a few minutes walk from the ha...

Hi all we are now in australia!! will write soon!!

Well we are back in Auckland for one night, tomorrow we go up a place called the bay of islands. We caught the ferry back to Wellington, which was really boring!! Once in wellington we met up with Laura and Liz again and arranged to meet later in the hostel bar. Well we did meet, we also met a girl form Barnstaple called Jade!! We ended up meeting some other people from Laura and Liz's bus and all went to a bar called shooters as it was student night and onl...

Well we got back to Queenstown and the party started! We (Emma, Rachel, Liz,Laura, Rebecca,Glen and Lyndsey, all went out for a meal as we were all going our separate ways the next day. We went to a thai restaurent and it was lovely. Then we went out for a few drinks after it was really nice but sad to say goodbye to everyone. The next day Emma, Rachel and lyndsey went up the gondola so that we could see the views over Queenstown, it was amazing and it was really...

Hello greetings from the far south!! We have managed to cram a lot of stuff in, in 4 days! We started in dunedin which is famous for it's university, the students have taken to burning couches for a laugh!! We visited the cadbury chocolate factory and got lots of free samples and brought some more chocolate as well!! The next day we travelled to a place called invercargill. On the way we saw sea-lions, seals and dolphins, the hostel was really nice. The next ...