After a 12 hour flight we arrived in Santiago four hours before we left on Easter Sunday. Crossing the international date line is a very strange thing. We fared alright on the flight using the little Spanish we knew to order drinks so thought this wasn´t a bad start. We were pretty much whisked to our home stay by taxi so trying to listen to Spanish when you are very tired is pretty hard. Managed to string a sentence together saying we were tired and then went t...

Made our way to Mount Maunganui a big surf town with a big mountain on the end. We decided to start by climbing up the mountain. I think we chose what was the steepest path. Did have great views of Mount Maunganui and the pennisula from the top. After this we opted for a lazy afternoon in the sun on the beach. Aaron braved the cold water while I happily read my book on dry ground. We then drove to the start of the following days walk at Katikati. We set off earl...

Arrived in Taupo booked a jump out of a plane for next morning and had a beer. Keeley then decided she would regret it if she did not jump so changed booking for two. The next morning we were picked up in a shabby limo and driven to the airport. Chose our songs for the video's and got geared up. Before you knew we up in the air six in one small plane I was going to be first to jump. The doors opened and I moved to the edge seemed to wait on the opening for a long...

The ferry across to the north island was very straight forward drove on watched harry potter film (film was not very good seemed to have no point to it) drove off. Wellington itself does not really cater for campervans so went to the Hutt Valley a short drive out. A bit of an industrail area not much to keep us long. Checked our e-mails the next morning and Megan who we had met in Vietnam and memorably in a ditch in Cambodia (where they and there Tuk Tuk were st...

After leaving Greymouth we headed to Reefton for lunch. Not a great deal to say about the place. After that we headed down the most friendly road yet. Aaron for once got waves from nearly every camper van one even flashed its lights first before giving a very enthusiastic wave. Aaron has faith in others again! Along the road to my horror we spotted the longest suspension bridge in New Zealand. Aaron decided to stop and have a go on the Zip line I waited at the en...