NZ Day Four Today we left Christchurch for Kaikoura, where we would spend the next two nights there. When we got on the bus that morning we were greeted by our driver called 'Todders' and a packed load of backpackers on the bus wondering why the hell they chose KIWI Experience as it was damn early in the morning to be travelling. First impressions of Kaikoura is that its more of a place for old retired people or people with a second home but regard...

NZ Day Five Woke up to a cloudy day today and we had decided to sea kayak and it was damn hard as the kayaks we used were massive and i'd only used smaller more mobile kayaks before coming out to NZ. Regardless we managed to paddle out to a nearby seal colony and Tim and I were able to get within a metre of these wild beautiful creatures. It was so unbelievably cool as they sort of stood up to attention curious as to what we were doing taking pictu...

NZ Day Three Twas a sunny day thank go for that but it was still a breezy day and the weather here is practically the same as England's which isn't all that good but hey can't complain. Today we decided to go on the tram around Christchurch and also take a ride on the Gondola. It was pretty cool going on the tram around the city as the driver gave us a guided commentary of the important buildings that we went past. We got off one of the tram ...

NZ Day Two Had a rubbish night's sleep due to last nights drunken escapade's and copius amounts of alcohol which led to me waking up during the night with MASSIVE cramps in both legs. Woke up today at around half 11 in the morning and Mark and i had to pick Tim (our third travelling buddy) from the airport at 2pm. So we got our skates on though my legs were in no condition to walk as it absolutely killed everytime i walked. Once again we had m...

NZ Day One Finally after being delayed for 2 hours we've arrived in New Zealand though we got into Chrsitchurch at about 20:30pm and we had made arrangements to meet the Spanish Girls at Cathedral Square for 8 o'clock so we were pretty rushed as soon as we arrived at Stonehurst our hostel for the night. Nevertheless the girls were loyal enough to wait till 9 0'clock for us at 'The Square' and we all met up for dinner at a Japanese Restaurant and then w...