Hello everyone, We are now in the South Island and the scenery is beautiful - Danny, Tim and Nicola keep talking about Lord of the Rings, so sometimes its nice to walk on your own and take in the views while they sing "they are taking the hobits to Isengard." 27th Oct Today we left Gerald and Natalias to catch a ferry to Picton. This was a 3 hour ferry journey to get from the north to the south island and when we got off it was like we were in anothe...

We arrived in New Zealand on the 14th October and booked ourselves onto the Kiwi Wxperience to leave on the 16th. Whilst in Auckland we visited the Auckland Museum and looked around the city. 16th October Up at 5:30am today so that we could get to the Kiwi Experience office to meet our bus for 7am and begin our journey around NZ. The trip up to the Bay of Islands was fun and we were able to meet other travellers from England - after spending weeks in a van thi...