After a picturesque southeasterly drive we arrived on the coast and the town of Kaikoura. With mountains and the sea so close it's understandable why we had heard auh great things about this place. We decided on dusky lodge as our hostel of choice going by our trusty bbh booklet. On arrival it seemed rather large but again swung by some freebies, namely breakfast a sauna and spa pool, we checked in. We wasted no time in checking out the town and endured in some l...

After a picturesque southeasterly drive we arrived on the coast and the town of Kaikoura. With mountains and the sea so close it's understandable why we had heard auh great things about this place. We decided on dusky lodge as our hostel of choice going by our trusty bbh booklet. On arrival it seemed rather large but again swung by some freebies, namely breakfast a sauna and spa pool, we checked in. We wasted no time in checking out the town and endured in some l...

Today supplied a significant day in our travels so far as it took us into the sequoia lodge family. We were relaxing in the evening and got talking to some of the workers(woofers) at the hostel. They informed us that they needed a couple of people to work there for a minimum of 2 weeks and as we are a couple of people it sounded perfect. We got trained up in the basic jobs the next day and started on Thursday 12th. Our days consisted of around two hours work from...

After a short drive we arrived in Blenheim stopped off at the I-site to use the pay phone to enquiry on some work. However the guy didn't seem all that convincing so we thought we should broaden our search by going to a local job centre. We signed up after purchasing our joint new Zealand mobile phone, for £10 each we couldn't complain. Using our charm and whit we managed to get a phone number off the lady who registered with us about a job she thought may be av...

We arrived at Nelson hearing good things about a particular hostel from John. However after inspection we decided to stay at one up the road called Tasman bay. We dropped our stuff in and took a quick look round the town. It didn't take long before we were back in the hostel a little disappointed that there wasn't much to be seen. However on a big plus the hostel we were in served free chocolate pudding in the evening so we took full advantage of this. John then ...