Thursday 18th July 8.30am I jumped in James' van (true Manchester adventure lad who is joining the army soon!) and off we went to Haas. It was a horrible rainy day so a good day for travelling, although the scenery was meant to be amazing through Haas, but never mind, there's not much one can do about that! We arrived in Haas - there is nothing there so stopped for lunch and moved swiftly on to Wanaka. As we went south the weather seemed to improve and we c...

Oh dear, so it's now the 22nd of July and I have had to put a hold on my travels to catch up with blogging...you get completely swept away with this travelling malarkey. It's incredible, you are constantly having fun, meeting new people, exploring places...always on the move, always something new, every minute of every day and I absolutely LOVE IT! So anyway, here I am, I have just said goodbye to my fellow travel buddies, James Bond (sorry Brown) and Mat Tram...

Sunday was a day of relaxing, sleeping and planning the next adventure...Abel Tasmin! After food shopping in Pack n' Save (the cheapest supermarket you can find over here), we drove North West up to Abel Tasmin. I stopped in the town just before Abel Tasmin National Park, called Motueka and checked into another cosy hostel called The Laughing Kiwi Backpackers. It's so quiet here, only one house open and only 2 dorm rooms are being used so really quiet and re...

Wellington...So I may have slept through my alarm, and so did Tristan...I woke up at 6.55pm. We had planned to leave the hostel at 6.30am to be at the ferry for 7am. Ops! So I jumped out of bed, threw my bags on my back, grabbed Tristan out of his room and we jumped in a taxi down the road. Somehow we just made it in time Phhew!!! I haven't done that before J On the ferry everyone was sleeping...I did some research about the South Island and enjoyed the vi...

My 3 days in Wellington have been good fun, meeting new people, doing touristy things like museums, just taking a nice break from 'Stray' adventures really which I think I needed; So Monday I headed to the Zealandia Sanctuary and ended up spending the rest of the day with two German girls I met there. We walked around the botanical gardens, which was really pretty and had a good view of the city and then we went for coffee in the town. It was a very relaxed ...