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 ...

I'm sorry i haven't updated in a while. St. Patrick's day was pretty crazy, we went to one bar and watched some rugby and then there was a challenge, to climb up a rope ladder... naked! Naturally, Toppy did it! Good man. And then yesterday we went zorbing but I couldn't as I had my tattoo, but the guys did, they said it was good fun and looked like it was. We then went to the top of the mountain in a cable car, and they had a sort of race track down the side ...

Happy St. Paddy's dayAs per usual we woke up to smell of egg, grabbed a shower then went to see about doing some zorbing, we didn't need to book and we are gonna do it tomorrow. Then we went along to the tattoo place - which looks really good. the people were really nice, the artist looked good, we looked through his portfolio's and then i booked into get my tattoo done!!!Jason chickened out but he did promise he would get it done in Wellington - but I smell a ...