Hi!It is my last full day in New Zealand today. Be warned tomorrow, I am coming home!. . . No, not really I am off to LA. It is going to be such a strange one. I leave here tomorrow for domestic flight to Auckland, hang around the airport for ages and then off to LA at about 7.30pm tomorrow night (Wednesday evening)?then I have a 12 hour flight but end up in LA seven hours earlier then I left so Wednesday lunch time. Dad pointed out about the bday thing,?I wish i...

Hi everybody! Thought I would drop you a quick line. I am in Kaikoura at the moment waiting for a boat to go (sea looks choppy,argh) and see some albatross. Apparently they are really big sea birds and the photos you can take are meant to be good. That is what I have really liked about New Zealand. The scenery is absolutely amazing. It is so photogenic. The locals here are really lucky but despite being polite and everything, out of everywhere I have been...

Hey!I went to Mount Cook yesterday. On the way, we had a little break at Lake Tekapo (in the picture above). It is as gorgeous as the picture. The little building is a church and it is absolutely tiny. I reckon any more then 12 people would be a squeeze. Apparently the Japanese love it and travel all the way here just to get married in the little church. In the alter of churches, it is traditional to have spectacular stained glass windows. Here though, the back w...

Hey! Just a quick one to let you know that I have flown in to Christchurch ok. It is like Christmas here. All the leaves are orange and brown as they were in Auckland but here, they are carpeting the floor too. Yea! See, it is one of my favourite things walking through crunchy leaves. So at the mo, I really like it here. Makes me feel all christmassy. It is cold but a nice kind of cold. I actually can wear a coat without been laughed at (though not many peop...

Hi all!Well, I think the picture above is something like LA will look like if my experiences of Hobbiton are anything to go by. You would think a movie set would be glamourous. Er, no. You have never seen so many sheep in your life (even in Wales) and the hills, rolling, is an understatement.Hobbiton is the only location with bits of set still remaining. It is all on a sheep farm in Matamya (?). One line cinema found the location after doing an indepth aerial sur...