So its been a month since I've been in "sunny" Australia. I say sunny.... it is currently pouring down outside. I arrived chilled and relaxed as I spoilt myself on my last two days in Auckland, I also got to catch up with Mandy and Sean who I met in the States and they treated me to dinner which was lovely of them. Excited about seeing Nicola, I didn't let the clouds disappoint me too much. Poor Nicola had a 25 hour flight from the UK and had arrived mu...

I know its been a while but I wanted to finish my South Island adventure before I updated you all on my goings on. I'm happy to say the South Island has been incredible and everything everyone has said it would be. I left Wellington and took the ferry which traverses the Cook Strait and allows you to see the beautiful Marlborough Sounds. Its 3 hours so also time enough for a little sleep! The ferry arrived in Picton around mid day and it was here I decided to hop...

My 'East As' trip started on a very miserable and wet day, being assured that the weather on the East is usually opposite to Taupo I hoped this was a good sign. There was only 8 of us for this part of the journey, a mixture of people one of whom was 72! Our first stop was Te Kaha, a small homestead run by a man who fancied himself a singer, who spent most of his time drunk and who could also marry people off. You expect to find guys like this in Vegas not in one ...

The thing about New Zealand is you pretty much bump in to a lot of the people you have already travelled with... so the start of my stay in New Zealand was met with a lot of familiar faces who were all starting one of the many bus tours around the Land of the Long White Cloud. My first stop was Auckand and since I would be ending my trip here too I decided to throw myself straight in to the Kiwi Experience by starting bright and early the next day with a three da...

Arrived in Fiji with my two new travelling companions (Lisa and Sian from the Trek America tour) very happy to find that it was hot. Very hot. Exhausted after the night flight from LA and slightly freaked out that we had lost two days somewhere on the way we made our way to our resort which turned out to be miles from anywhere. It was also completely devoid of people apart from the odd person here and there but since all three of us had decided we were going to s...