G'day Bruce, i'm back in the land of Oz! My flight to melbourne was for some reason split into two. I had to fly to sydney first-standing in sydney airport looking out towards the sydney skyline was a strange homecoming of sorts-and then down to melbourne. After a short delay i arrived in melbourne and was picked up by laura. It was quite strange finally meeting up with her out here having planned on it for years. We high-tailed it (what does high-tail actually ...

On my last night in Queenstown me and the girls all went out for a goodbye meal. We (I) chose a pizza place called Vinny's and it was one of the best pizza restautants i've ever been too. now i know i said that Fergburger was the best ever of its type too (and it is) but this place was outstanding. Oh and the roof of the restaurant opened up too, which was cool. We then went back to the hostel bar for some karaoke. The very first song of the night was me being se...

Kia ora. The morning after the Poo Pub Party was not a pleasant time for anyone on the bus. It was mildly amusing to see who the most hungover was but only until your own one kicked in then you had to suffer. We had a quick stop at the Bushmans centre which was fairly bizarre-we saw a video of guys jumping off of helicopters onto the backs of deer! The next day was the heli-hike on Franz Josef glacier. The only glacier in the world surrounded by rainforest and ...

the day after the skydive was a lazy one. Everyone was really hungover and devoid of energy and enthusiasm for anything apart from tea and sweets. Me mark and aaron did drum up enough energy for a game of mini golf but the 'contest' ended unsatisfactorly in a tie between me and mark (i still think he cheated somehow) so i had to just remind myself that i'd already taken all his money off of him at both darts and pool. The sunday night was karaoke. At first everyo...

So i left auckland and got on the kiwi experience bus up to the Paihia at the bay of islands. I'm on this bus for nearly 4 weeks. Its a sort of guided tour of the country but they also sort you out with accomodation and activities (which you have to pay for) Paihia was really nice. Nice place. I went out on a big speedboat that went insanely fast and cos the sea was so rough it was airborne quite a few times as it jumped off of waves. It was pretty quick but re...