Since the times of christchurch Lou-Lou has had possibly the best two weeks of her life exploring the South Island. To help you imagine people, think of being at Uni with a close group of mates living, cooking and ding everything together. Now put that with no work just fun - the best fun ever -then add a foreign country with absolutely spectacular scenery everywhere. get the picture?!Anyway, sorry, i left Christchurch on a Sun morning and who should be on the bu...

After a couple of days chilling out and getting to know my cousins in Maroochydore i headed up to Hervey Bay (meeting Martin - a mate from Meribel- on the way!). Here i met back up with Julie and Emma from Byron Bay (completely unplanned). I did a day tour of Fraser island as that was all i had time for and i got to see the majority of the sights on the island. We saw the Maheno Shipwreck which was awesome, Eli creek, Lake McKenzie, the coloured sands and sand ...

Well, I'm here finally in New Zealand! and on first thoughts it's bloody freezing! so so so cold! but beautiful. Christchurch is exactly like a little english town (a nice one). I've spent the last few days being very cultural and visiting all the must see places around here such as The Arts Centre - a massive mansion thing with courtyards etc full of little galleries and shops. One i particuarly enjoyed was Fudge Cottage - very nice baileys chocolate fudge! Also...

On our way up to Cairns we stopped over at Townsville for the night so we all decided to hop over to Magnetic Island. We caught the ferry over (wine bottle in hand) and chilled out in the amazing hostel on the beach. This was very relaxing until some woman decided to bring soe lizard thing near me and i completely freaked out! - quite amusing now though. I told everyone about phili on digestives and we pigged out in our rooms - knives under pillows and all! The...

Finally, arriving in Airlie beach i was very excited about our Whitsunday sailing trips (what i had been looking forward to the most). We spent the evening checking out the local nightlife beofe rising early to start the cruise. Me and clare were on the same boat (the Matador) and we met Mandy that morning. The next three days were a mixture of sunbathing, sailing, chilling, diving, snorkelling, swimming and of course fantastic views and sunsets. Being the only...