This morning we set off from Greymouth and got into Franz Joseph at around 5pm, weather is still mega warm which is nice, we booked a glacier walk tomorrow for half a day, we were gonna book a helicopter hike one but we don't have enough moolah! We went on a little hike as there is not much to do apart from drink here, we walked for around for 40mins until it got dusky, and I decided that i could climb down a cliff via a vine - bad decision, I held onto it but co...

From Nelson we hastily moved further down south to Greymouth, it was another nice town, quiet and had some nice views but we only stayed there for a night, the weather this morning was mega hot and the sun was out so I worked on my tan, I'm still as white as a milk bottle but I can still try.

Since we came to the south island, we stayed in pPcton for about 25mins and then went onto nelson where we spent 2 nights there, it was the worst hostel I have stayed in, the TV was on full blast until 4am - both nights, but it was cheap and cheerful-ish. We didn't do to much in Nelson, we went to a beer brewery for the day, it was quite cool, we saw some old style bakeries, printing presses etc etc and sampled some organic beer - its not nice really and for a ...

Well we've been in Wellington for a few days now, and we are actually moving on tomorrow onto the south island and into Picton.Today we went for a massive hike to see if we could find some of the sets that lord of the rings was filmed but we didn't, we just walked around some woods aimlessly because we were too cheap to pay for a tour! Also we went to see the boat that was used in king kong as it was still moored around the corner of a beach. It wasn't that goo...

Today we set out from Rotorua and went to Taupo. Once we got here, we went to look at all the shops and to have a look at the lake its less of a lake more like ocean! It is HUGE! It was pretty cool, very big though. We went to do a bit of climbing, the guys didn't really want to, so I was the only person to climb! It was very tiring and my little arms are now killing to type. We have been spending a lot of money unessasairly recently, so we are now budgeting and ...