Hello again! After getting the wettest early morning wake up call since starting travelling! We headed off down through Torquay and out towards Angelsea which is where the Great Ocean Road starts to get really interesting or scenic as the guide book calls it! We headed out through Angelsea which is a small but rather pretty fishing village - not much to see here apart from the beach or the golf course which has resident kangaroos so trying to avoid bunkers and th...

Hi everyone, We only had 2 days in christchurch so spent our time being all touristy! We visited the cathedral, rode on the really cute tram that does a circuit around the city, went on the gondola which gave us lovely views of christchurch and the surrounding area, visited the art gallery and Canterbury museum for a bit of cultural elightenment! and finally chilled out in the botanical gardens with an ice cream where we found a tree bigger than the one in Milfo...

Miss D's trip to DunedinMy Great Aunt who was a nun spent all her life in NZ working as a primary school teacher. Most of her life was spent working in Dunedin so I separated from the girls for a couple of days so i could visit where she lived and worked and meet the nuns that would have known her!I flew to Dunedin early morning and was met by St Lorraine at the airport. She took me on a tour off the suburbs around Dunedin and a tour of all the sights. we vis...

The first morning in Queeny D and Round were up bright and early to do their bungee jumps - the nevis is 134m (440 ft) high and is a suspended cable car in the mountains where u jump straight into the gorge below with the Kawaru river flowing through the middle. D was first to go and ahving not felt scared by much so far was abs petrified of jumping it was that high - YAY! The freefall is 8 seconds but feels like a lifetime - no other feeling like it - R was next...

Queenstown is set around lake Wakatipu making it very scenic - it is again a ski town and has lots of lovely restaurants and bars to choose from and designer shops which makes it very lively and makes you want to stay here for a long time! We had a week here and was really nice to stop in one place for more than a few days. After we had sorted ourselves out we decided to hire two cars and go on a road trip to Milford Sound. 8 of us went from the Kiwi bus and we d...