JAMES For the past couple of days we have been enjoying the undoubted luxury of staying somewhere for more than one night (for the first time since the first stint in Sydney), with the added luxury of having a hire car. This means that not only can we empty all our sh!t over the bedroom and not have to pack it up again a few hours later, but even when we do have to pack it up again it doesn't all have to fit into the rucksack as it can just be piled into the bac...

JAMES Welcome to New Zealand! It was an eventful journey over from Australia on Sunday - everything went smoothly on the first flight from Sydney to Christchurch, but as we were sitting waiting to board the next plane for a 50 minute hop down to Queenstown, we were told that there was bad weather in Queenstown and we might have to divert to Invercargill and then bus it up to Queenstown. Suffice it to say that that was exactly what happened, so we were a good 3 h...

KATIE Thursday 13th November Well, we made it to the cricket, and I have to say I actually quite enjoyed it. Not sure how much of that was to do with the fact that it was glorious sunshine, very relaxed and we were sipping on cold beers and how much was the cricket, but then let's not worry about technicalities!! Slightly more of a strenuous walk back as we thoughts we'd take a short cut back and it turned out to be a very scenic and long winded short cut. Oh w...

JAMES Another blog update about another fantastic day in Sydney yesterday (the man in the internet cafe over the road from the hotel is doing very nicely out of us at the moment, as we've got so much to write about!). We did the Bridgeclimb yesterday morning, and it was brilliant! With the exception of Peru, it is probably the best thing we have done on the trip so far. I cannot believe anyone would come to Sydney and not do it, it's something you can't really ...

KATIE Well, if you'd told me 2 years ago that on my second anniversary I'd be in Sydney and on a 3 month holiday I'm not sure I would have believed you, but here we are!! Thankfully feeling ok for the first time in about 7 days today so that was really nice for a change! Today we hot footed it over to Circular Key where we caught the Bondi Explorer bus and had a scenic tour to Bronte Beach (with a really good driver and, for once, useful commentary!) where we go...