Well a place I could live in (Michael) !! We arrived at 5.30pm on a thursday evening, organised our activities for the following day….. Friday morning we had another early start to catch the Shotover jet boat ride, running twin supercharged v6 motors pushing 500hp got us going down the river through canyons and rapids doing 360 spins. Was a thrill for a little but eventually got quite boring as it was speed limited to 80kph!! We finished up with the jet...

Lets just say even the pubs where BORING!!!!

We had a bit of a rocky start to Franz Joseph. We were 4 people from our bus who was doing the Heli Hike whcich is a 20 minute helicopter flight up to the galicer (dad you would have LOVED this) 2 hours on the glacier and then 20 minutes back down again. There were some other people from our bus doing a half day walk up the mountain up to the glacier. When we got to the place to check in they started out by telling us our driver had not booked us in and there w...

After a 3 hour ferry ride we are now back in Picton on the south island. Both Michael and I have been looking forward to this just because it's the place with lots of cool stuff to do. We stayed 3 days in Nelson the first day we got in quite late so all we did was relax and have a wonder in the city which like every other city we have been to closes at 6 pm. The next morning we had to get up at 6 am arghhh so early. Michael is so much better at getting up then m...

We are now heading back down the north island back to Taupo. Unfortunealy for me this time we sat in the front of the bus with a couple and 2 young girls who we happened to get a long with really well. We had a really nice bus ride until Michael these 4 people and the bus driver decided I should be convinced to do a skydive….. WHAT THE F…???? I only had a little time to decided because you have to sign up for it. Well I ended up signing up for it and...