It's not always the well none tourist spots that are the best! Now in waitmate an hour south of timaru, the drive down highlighted the contrast between the lush green irriugated fields and the stained yellow fields demanding rain, some lovely countrieside on the way down hear. This afternoon was more than great, i had my own local tour round waitmate the small town itself with some buatiful public gardens the bright colours of the flower beds standing out imedi...

Heading south! Since my birthday i spent the last few days around christchurch, wednesday night was amazing, the buskers were on at night and so the evening was spent sitting on the grass in the park watching incredable routines. The smile was on my face, theres nothing like just sitting amoungst locals at the park as the sun goes down with great entertainment and happy people. At 10 the flame ozz were incredable, the yellow flames against the black skys and cir...

18! Waking up in new zealand on my birthday was a first indeed, if im onest it never felt like my birthday, 13 hours ahead of the uk it was a wierd feeling but ofcourse a great day! I did carry on the theme of exploring and see new things, i spent the morning at the antartic centre witch was awesome, new zealand has a permanent base in antarctica and so this explained all about it with exciting exhibitions all over the center, with penguins and a haggland witch...

little explorer! So its been afew days since i updated the blog apologies, getting over the jetlag and exaustion of the flight took alot longer than i first thought. With visits into the city have been awesome, a city with such greenary is exactly what i like, the botanical gardens, the river avon and the style of buildings including canteberry museum gave me a feel for the place. The buskers festival has been in full flow, how you can just sit on the ground wi...

Jetlag! There i was on tuesday lunch time saying goodbye to scotland once again, i left glasgow airport and the start of the adventure begun. From glasgow the 7 hour flight that took me to dubai. Spending 9 hours in dubai airport, the airport was quite incredable with areas with trees and plants, the 9 hours eventualy passed and i was onto the next flight to bangkok another 7ish hours, out the plain through security and once again on the plain this time to sydne...