Crikey Mates! G'day to you As you can tell, the Aussie slang is coming on a treat indeed! Haha So, we left you in Byron bay after the competition... following that, we made our way to a little town called Nimbin just inland from byron bay and famous for it's 'magic cookies'! We think Sal and Toby would've loved it as it was really hippy - the campsite we stayed at had shed toilets and a kitchen in a tent and you could pretty much get high just breathing!!Did we...

G'Day!! So we've come to the end of our first week of the road trip and are having a brilliant time despite the rain for the most part of this week!! The journey began with the terrifying experience of trying to get out of Sydney with it's maze of 1 way streets and heavy traffic but the wagon, by the name of Lou Carpenter, proved to drive like a dream and I don't think any of us want to go back to manual now!!! So we got to the Blue Mountains and stopped at Go...

Hello there... So we arrived back in Sydney to find it alot colder than it had been when we left and alot wetter than we hoped but no worries as there was lots of partying to be had. Mat turned 19 the day after we got back so the Shaw sisters cooked him up a feast of bangers and mash with chocolate mousse for pudding. We put the candles in the mash and they melted into it a little more than we intended, Doh! Still tasted fine though apparently! After, we went ou...

Only a little bit to update about Christchurch but it does include a possible favourite activity!! We arrived at our 'newly decorated historic hotel' not expecting too much as it was cheap but seriously do not know what posessed them to design it the way they did it felt like we'd walked into the shining and our room smelt a little mouldy but apart from that it was bliss! We spent the first day wandering around trying to decide what to do, went to the Cathedral...

First stop on the bottom bus was Dunedin, the most Scottish city in New Zealand and is based on Edinburgh - same road names etc. The Scots on the bus wernt overly convinced it was that similar to Edinburgh though! We didn't have long to spend in Dunedin so we used our time wisely by getting booked onto the Speights (Pride of the South) Brewery tour. It was fairly interesting, we tried the malt - memories of the coffee bean in London Sally!! - Not all that great ...