hello all the computer just froze and i had written loads, so here goes again!! We are in Queenstown now, we left Hamner Springs pretty quickly the other night as had a few troubles with the vn. In the morning we woke up to find a brick had been thrown at our van the brick was on the floor and the dent is above the wheel arch on the back tyre. We took photos of it and have called up backpacker, we are fine as we are fully insured. But just very annoying and wei...

Not long since i last wrote on here, but we have seen most of the south island now...we left Queenstown and went to Wanaka, had a hot chocolate there, very ski resorty there, lovely drive from Queenstown though...we picked up a hitchhiker, only our second, he was from Argentina, was pleading on the side of the road and it was very cold outside!!so we let him in, drove through the Gates of Haast stunning scenary, a lot of lakes around, and dropped Fran off in haas...

Hello agin We have been in the south island for less than a week and already it is way better than the north. There is so much more to see, but not a lot to do, unless t involves money. We have taken a lot of pictures too many to upload but the silly computer wont let me today, so will have to another time! The picture that you can see is of Milford Sound which was an amazing place, we liked it a lot:) So we left Jaijoura and went on to Hamner Springs, we stay...

Hello agin We have been in the south island for less than a week and already it is way better than the north. There is so much more to see, but not a lot to do, unless t involves money. We have taken a lot of pictures too many to upload but the silly computer wont let me today, so will have to another time! The picture that you can see is of Milford Sound which was an amazing place, we liked it a lot:) So we left Jaijoura and went on to Hamner Springs, we stay...

Hello all, It is definitely long time no speak. I apologise for not updating the blog in so long, but there really hasn't been anywhere to use the internet!!So i am making the most of my time now!!So we have been in New Zealand for 2weeks, we arrived in Auckland, and Di (a friend of the family) came to the airport to pick us up...but it took us ages to get through to arrivals, as we had to declare things, and made sure we did after the sniffer dog incident in Oz...