Hello everyone, sorry it's been a while. I have been in Sydney nearly 2 weeks now so I thought it was about to update the Melbourne blog!! We arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday 19th August after a short flight from Christchurch. We checked into our hostel which was not in the city centre but in the suburbs of St Kilda. Carol and I were in a different room to Matt and Mark as they weren't staying as long as we were. They were lucky enough to be the same room as ...

Well we have arrived in Christchurch, which is our final stop in New Zealand and overall it's been amazing, our favourite country so far. We have had 3 nights here and we set off for Melbourne on Tuesday. Due to our lack of funds we haven't done very much here. We arrived late on Saturday and had a few drinks in the bar. Sunday we went to have a look around the market and had a chilled out evening watching tv in the tv lounge and today we went on a city walk a...

Hello, We set off for Dunedin on Thursday 14th Aug. It took us pretty much all day to get there. We arrived around 3pm and headed straight to the Otago Peninsula for Carol to go to the Penguin Place and see the penguins. We were very lucky as we arrived about 3.30 and the 1st tour of the day was at 3.45pm. Penguin Place is a private conservation centre for yellow eyed penguins. These penguins are only found in New Zealand so it was a real treat to see them. ...

Hello again! We set off from Wanaka pretty early and arrived in Queenstown about lunchtime on Sunday 10th. We had a wander around and it was a lovely day so we decided to go on the Gondola and the Luge ride. The gondola was a cable car that took us up really high so we could get some good views of Queenstown, the lake and the snowy mountains. After taking some photos we all went on the luge ride. It was really good it was a bit like go-karting with an 800m t...

Hello everyone! We arrived in Wanaka Friday 8th August around lunch time and after a brief look around we all decided to go to Puzzling World, which was an attraction with a 2 storey maze and various illusion rooms. It was really good- one of the illusion rooms was really bizzare as it was on a slant so it looked like balls were rolling uphill rather than down. We then went into the maze- we decided we would go in teams; Cazza and Liz against Matt and Mark. W...