It feels like we haven't updated you for AGES - we've been to so many places since the last blog, so this might take me a while! After Roturua our next stop was Waitomo where we had the chance to do black water rafting. I (amy) jumped at the chance as there was literally nothing else to do or see there. It was an early start, 7.45, when they kitted us up in our sexy rafting outfits - I swear in every activity so far they've made us look as stupid as they possib...

Whilst we were in Rotorua we finally did our first exciting activity - white water rafting! We were taken to the place and kitted up in our sexy rafting outfits and then it was straight up to the river! No proper training was involved, we just got in the boat and the instructor would tell us wether to be paddling forwards or backwards, and when to 'hold on', or in extreme cases when we were going down waterfalls, to 'get down'. This involved holding on to two rop...

Hey everyone, sorry we haven't written much for a while but we haven't had the motivation to update you about New Zealand! After leaving Auckland we headed north to Pihia/Bay of Islands, where the weather again wasn't too great. There were a lot of boat trips to do around the area but we're trying to save money and wait for the more high adrenaline activities down south so kept things on the cheap side. We decided to go along some of the free walking tracks to ki...

We're in Auckland now - Great! Because we're having so much fun - NOT! It wasn't really a good start to NZ as we missed our shuttle that we booked to Sydney airport, from our hostel - oops! So had to catch the train instead. Then when arriving in Auckland we realised there's nothing to do here! It's been such an anti climax because we were pretty excited when thinking about the stuff we'd be doing here. The first day we climbed Mt. Eden so looked over the who...

It's our last day in Sydney today, the week seems to have gone so fast! We arrived last Friday afternoon after a very uncomfortable 9 hour bus journey. Most places were shut that night as it was Good Friday so our hostel provided free noodles and drink, and we got a bit excited about the free internet and touch screen computers! Saturday we spent the day walking around and sussing the place out, we were recommended some mashed potato from a small cafe on wheels c...