Hello! This is our last postcard from New Zealand because we fly out to Fiji tomorrow - yey! We have spent the last week in Auckland trying to organise the next leg of the trip and sell our car. Eventually we were successful in both. We took the car to a backpacker car market and it sold a lot more easily than we expected. We have been staying in a fantastic hostel in Parnell, with a really cute bozz-eyed cat called Dude. We've also met a lot of rea...

Hi Everyone! Hope you're all well. We're now in the north of the North Island in Paihia on the Bay Of Islands. It's a gorgeous little town with a fantastic ice-cream shop!! After Taupo we travelled north to Rotorua where we went to a Maori concert and hangi (traditional feast cooked in underground stoves). It was an excellent evening featuring lots of scary looking men in little more than a g-string dancing the Haka. We also visited the Kiwi D...

Hello again! We've spent the last couple of Days in Taupo and tomorrow we travel north to Rotorua. We entered a pub quiz on Tuesday night with a couple of nice locals, Rachel and Jimmy, we had a great time - came joint third, not bad considering the amount of alcohol we consumed! Yesterday we took a boat trip on The Barbary yacht on Lake Taupo. What a fantastic trip! The yacht is 80 years old and was once owned by Errol Flynn, presumably 'the' Errol F...

Hello! As you may have seen from the pictures we have had a couple of hetic weeks! Last time we wrote we were in Queenstown again, here we did the Shotover Jet, which is basically a jet that whizzes down a canyon doing 360 degree turns and splashing about. This was really good fun but only lasted 30 minutes, we could of stayed on all day, although we were pretty soaked once we got off. We then travelled to Fox Glacier and did a day hike onto the G...

Hi Everyone! Update from the South Island... About a week ago we arrived in Queenstown and haven't stopped since. There's just too much to do here. Helen did a bungy jump on Tuesday over the Nevis River 134m up. Quote: "Totally breathtaking, I was too scared to scream!" Got to be one of the scariest things in the world, jumping out of a cable car, attached to just a piece of latex. We moved onto Wanaka on Wednesday for 3 days of snowboarding at Ca...