Hello lovely people! We've just completed a fantastic 3 weeks in the south island. We've done things at a bit more of a leisurely pace than normal, which has been great, and still managed so see loads. Our first stop was a lovely town on the northern coast called Nelson. From there we had access to the Abel Tasman National park. We took advantage of the nice weather and spent a day tramping (that's what they call walking/trekking over here!!) We were right tram...

Hi there from New Zealand!! Sorry it's taken so long to update the blog but as usual we've been rushed off our feet travelling around all over the North Island. We arrived in New Zealand on 17th October after an interesting stopover in Los Angeles. Our airline in Chile gave us the option to go through LA and put us up in a nice hotel so we jumped at the chance. It was pretty cool to be in such a different city but it wasn't exactly what we expected....we headed ...