After a couple of days spent catching up with Ambient I headed on down to Taupo where I was due to do a four day East Cape tour with Kiwi experience. I had a few days left and had to choose between that and the Tongariro Crossing but I'd just thrown out my only trousers that weren't jeans in Bay of Islands (jeans are very bad to hike in so I'd have had to buy more!!!) and the East As tour was longer so a bit more worthwhile! I was on a bus with 14 oth...

Gosh how very slack I have been!! My only excuse is that I have been having far too much fun!! Well and that I have been in Fiji where there was no internet access at all!! THe Bay of Islands were amazing. I went up to a place called Whangarei where I stayed with Katie Edwards (who originates from Bideford for those of you not lucky enough to know her!) and her husband for three nights. It was great to chill out and have some home comforts there and I got to spen...

I first got to Auckland on January 29th and just stayed for one quick night before meeting Matt and Aarron off the plane on the 30th and heading off in our hire car for ten days. They arrived safely and we got away from the car hire place at about 4pm (the first car we got broke down about 3km from the hire place so that was fun!!) Matt was in the driving seat of our automatic Nissan Wingroad (bit like an oversized go-cart!!) and we headed on up to the Coromandel...

After my second trip to Kaikoura we travelled up to the tip of South Island for the second time to Picton where I had to board the ferry for the North Island and sadly wave goodbye to to South :( Well in reality I got on the ferry found a free set, plugged my Ipod in and promptly fell asleep! So much for waving from the deck and getting some good photos of the Sounds! Never mind eh - it made the three hour journey go a lot quicker! Arrived in Wellington at about ...

Well I bid my final farewell to Queenstown last Monday morning and took the Stray bus up to Christchurch where I stayed two nights. Met a nice girl from Pennsylvania called Lauren and did some sightseeing with her (and some shopping at the biggest Mall in the South Island!) Stayed at Base this time which is really central although much busier than the old country house where I was for Christmas. Its nice to go back to the same towns though as it means I don't...