Becca's dad, mike arrived on the wednesday evening after driving from Christchurch to Queenstown, where we were waiting in a rugby club car park, where we caught up over a bottle of wine, sat in his mansion on wheels! Not sure this was exactly what he had in mind when he imagined camping in New Zealand. Luckily he awoke early the next day and avoided the 9-O'Clock wake-up call we received by an angry council man banging on our window telling us we'd get fined if ...

We woke up on Monday morning very excited for our flight to New Zealand. We felt like little kids going on holiday - probably because we'd been in Australia for so long it was beginning to feel like home. Arrived in Christchurch and were met by Michael, our friend that we'd worked with in Brisbane and had got on really well with and happened to be home in Christchurch at the same time we were there. He'd offered to show us about and it was great to have local g...

Our last week of work and with Jen and Lochie came around very quickly. Becca has been feeling a lot better and had even had a chance to meet up with Marjorie - her mum's friend from back home. She had a really nice day out with her and Brian and they spoilt her rotten! Which was very much appreciated and it was great to see them! As hard as the job had been and as ready as we were to move on it was still really hard to say goodbye. Our last Saturday at work l...

First things first, Apologies for this being long overdue. The first couple of weeks in Brisbane passed quite quickly without all that much happening. We fell in love with the city as soon as we got there - and even more so because it wasn't raining and it wasn't Townsville. We stayed in 3 different backpackers in the first 3 nights - changing everyday to try and find the cheapest. The one we settled on didn't turn out to be the best especially as it was a party...

Let us start by saying that anyone who is jealous of us being in Australia shouldn't bother at the moment. We're currently stuck in the middle of a cyclone. All the roads around us are flooded so we can't get out and we're pretty frustrated that we can't get down to Brisbane to find jobs. It started off a lot better though, we had a great time in Cairns. Only after enduring a horrible over-night flight involving a 2 hour stop in Darwin airport at 3 in the mornin...