So we've been in New Zealand for over three weeks now and boy has it flown by!!! Cheesey and Lyn have come and gone and we had a fantastic time with them. We still have two weeks left here to return to Auckland and try to do all the things we missed out on as we travelled south. I say it's flown by because we have literally been travelling at a hundred miles an hour (sometimes faster!) going from town to town and from different activity to different activity. Me...

Jan 3rd 2009 Very excited today as in 6 hours we will be meeting up with the man with the chin! Yes today we meet Cheesey and start our adventure through New Zealand!!!! We've already been in Auckland a couple of days and despite some rain and a rather curious odour from the bloke in our dorm - I have to say we're pretty impressed! Very clean, very polite people and everyone speaks English!! - Except for the French lass sat next to me who won't shutup!!! We...