Day 19 Went for a little walk around the city. Saw the touristy things (museum, botanic gardens, and art village). The art village was really good, even though small art and craft stalls are defiantly not our thing. It’s set in a block of narrow buildings, which were built to resemble the Oxford University colleges. It was a boiling hot day so we chilled out in the courtyard and listened to a bloke singing old Irish folk songs/English war songs. Then we ...

Day 18 Up early for our lift to Christchurch. Yesterday the girl who we arranged to drive us had a foreign sounding, semi-American accent and we had high hopes she’d be a Scandi stunner. Unfortunately she was a pretty ugly German. We were pretty tired from the night before and the fact it was baking hot and she wouldn’t shut up was mildly annoying. She was nice enough though, but she clearly advertised to drive people for the company and we both wa...

Day 17 We wernt too sure what to do after having to check out of hostel at 10. Were both pretty hungover again and could either stay another night in Queenstown or head to Dunedin for the night before making our way up to Christchurch for the weekend. We opted for a bit of hitching again and initially a dreadlocked Georgian took us from Queenstown to the main road a few kms down the road. From here we were taken to a small town Cromwell on route, but it was o...

Day 16. Felt rough from the night before so slept in as best we could. Eventually we decided to go out and face the day. At the tourist info place I was told that the white water rafting can only take place on the tamer of the 2 rivers as water levels we too low on the best one. I decided that if I’m gonna pay a lot to do it, I’d rather go straight for the best stuff so I’m going to see if we come across it somewhere else. This left me with...

Day 15 Today I took temporary leave of my senses and decided to jump out of a plane from 12,000 feet with a big hairy Kiwi strapped to my back. I was pretty nervous all morning but not as scared as I thought I would be because it all seemed a bit surreal. Although as I had to watch three people jump before me in the plane I started to get pretty terrified as they seemed to disappear into no where and not come back. Then as I was hovered out of the door I found...