Hi everyone, sorry the website is so out of date! We have just spent a week in Bali which was truely amazing and quite an eye-opener. We went on an elephant ride which was great fun and visited a monkey forest. Another highlight of the week was going fishing to catch our dinner and then being invited to a typical Balinese home to have our dinner cooked for us in the traditional way. It was a really great evening and we even had to eat with our fingers whilst sat ...

Kiwi Day 1: Christchurch to Kaikoura We got up about 6.30am to get ready for Kiwi. We checked out and walked round the corner to meet the bus at 7.40am. Finally we saw the big green bus heading down the road towards us, our adventure was about to begin. When on the bus we booked our accomodation for that night in Kaikoura and also booked to go swimming with dolphins in the afternoon. We weren't sure we'd be able to book it but luckily there were just 2...

Monday 8th Jan We got up at 5.30am, packed our stuff and checked out of All Nations. We walked up to the bus station and caught the RedBus to Melboure Airport. When we finally got through all the security checks etc we had some breakfast in Starbucks in the departure lounge. It was crap in there, not a fry up to be found so we had to make do with an overpriced panini! We boarded the plane just after 8am for our 3 hour flight over to New Zealand. We landed...

Friday 5th January Arrived in Melbourne at 6.30am and had a nice surprise as we got picked up at the station. And by a fit irishman! We were only paying $15 a night for this hostel so weren't sure what to expect but it's ok. It's meant to be $25, think there must be a mistake on the internet. Slept all morning. Did some chores in town, bought some warm clothes for New Zealand as it's gonna be pretty chilly there! And suffered the odd Melbourne ...

Saturday 23rd December We arrived in Sydney at about 6.30am. We grabbed our stuff and headed for Central station to get over to Kings Cross. Luckily the hostel was pretty close by. It's a really nice hostel and predominatly full of German backpackers. It was too early for us to check in so we had to sit in the kitchen and just wait until 10.30am. In the meantime Em made some calls and I wrote up the diary as we were a bit behind. We also had some free breakfa...