..........Well Melbourne....... It certainly started badly.....we were given keys to a 10 bed dorm which when we got in there had no beds free........hmmm we kinda thought 'here we go' but to be fair they sorted it out and in the end we were given a 10 bed dorm to ourselves, so we were quite happy!! WE even managed to play '805' cricket haha lots of innings over our 10 days. Our 1st few days we generally were walking around Melbourne getting to ...

Well...finally we had arrived in Australia!!! We were all very much looking forward to a fresh change and we got it! Consistently the weather was up near 40 degrees for the 5 days we were there which certainly helped us to keep our tans up. Our first hostel though was far from good, it was a small 8 bed dorm and as you can imagine when the air conditioning breaks a little fan just really isnt going to make up for it so 2 nights was enough for us there before we...

Well Queenstown was our next stop......the adventure capital and that it certainly was!! Only one problem, to do anything there u need to have lots of money!! We also thought we were going to see Tim do the Nevis bungy but he felt he didnt have enough money at the time so hopefully he will get to do it now he has left us and is working there!! Good luck mate!!! Other than that we stayed in a nice hostel called the black sheep that was close enough to the town to ...

Ok as we have been in New Zealand i thought i should right a few different journals...well since the last we crossed top the south island to Picton where in truth there wasnt a great deal to do unless we wanted to Kayak or swim with the dolphins again!...but I did have my worst day here by a mile in terms of "missing home"....think this wasnt helped by a not good ferry journey and not much sleep the night before!!...but by the next day that had all been...

Rotorua was our next stop which made an interesting change to Auckland... It is the main place in the world that has natural spa pools, or geyser pools which contain sulphur(actually stinks) but u soon get used to the smell, and i soon got used to it as i could relax in the hostels spa pool(very nice lol) So basically thats all we saw there were the natural springs! But seemed a nice place but the 3 nights we were there were enough! Taupo was next and here is wh...