So on Tuesday 27th morning I had to say a sad farewell to Emily, Jac and Matt. Emily kindly drove me to the ferry point to take the Interislander ferry across from Wellington to Picton. Taking me from the north island of New Zealand to the South Island.It was sad to have to say goodbye as it was such a lovely 4/5 days with them, especially over Christmas and we knew it will be a while before we do see each other again. I also had that feeling on being solo again,...

I arrived in Wellington (horray, bus came, and on time too!!) on Friday 23rd December, very very excited about seeing Emily Phillips! Em picked me up at Te Papa museum, with Jac in the car...was soo great to see her but felt weirdly normal too, like it was a regular thing for us both to be in New Zealand. My first introduction to Wellington was us stopping off to give wee Jac his bottle and then us driving off, leaving the lid of the bottle on the car roof...so t...

The jounrey from Taupo to Napier took just 2 hours and was a stunning jounrey, really rurual, very mountanous and lots of sheep everywhere! A lovely wew guy called 'Wiki' from Taiwan was on my bus, and has been on nearly every bus I have had here in New Zealand so far and we were randonly booked into the same hostel. He is hilarious!! Constantly carries this crazy over sized bright red chill cool bag thing around with lots of rice and noodles in it!! He really is...

The bus from Rotorua to Taupo was just 1 hour so that was great. Arrived in Taupo Mon 19th around 2.30pm and by 3.30pm I was being picked up from my hostel to go sky diving?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had thought about doing a sky dive...and there is no where better to do one than here in N.Zealand, but I had just enquired with my hostel about prices etc and the next thing I was booked onto one! Crazy! Basically the girl at the hostel said that with the weather there h...

I left the Bay of Islands area on Thursday 15th December, departing from Hahei. Thursday was a total wash out day, absolutely poured ALL day (yuk) so thankfully it was a travel/on the bus day so it didnt matter too much. The bus left Hahei and arrived in Tauranga at 4pm. I stayed in a fab hostel in Tauranga, called 'Harbourside City Backpackrs' which was right on Stand Road, along the water front, with amazing open plan kitchen with stunning views over the water....