Christchurch At the airport I made friends with a German girl and we set off in search of a hostel together and later to rade the suppermarket with everything seeming so cheap in comparison with Australia. It was clear from the start that there was nothing to do in Christchurch since the major earthquake almost 2 years ago had devestated the city to the extent that it had not yet recovered and still experienced regular aftershocks. Needless to say I was keen to ...

My next stop was in the ultra cool Byron Bay. Unfortunately the weather here wasn't great and instead of spending all my time on the beach I spent most of it wandering round the cool array of shops resisting the temptation to buy loads of pointless souvenirs and gaining some cheap second hand warm clothes in preperation for New Zealand. I did however managed to get weather decent enough to allow me to cycle to the famous Byron Bay lighthouse, where I looked out a...

Franz Josef With a relatively tame start to my stay in Franz Josef involving me and mascha falling asleep watching the first lord of the rings in honor of this beautiful country. Frankly frodo was a bit of a moan anyway. My $750 day... The morning started with beautiful clear skies making for a stunning helicopter ride up to the famous Franz Josef glacier, where we then got to amble around on top of for a few hours in our fetching snow suits, spikey cramp-ons ...

Next I went to Noosa where I went for a mahoosive run along the coast and through the everglades stumbling across a nudist beach and spotting a wild koala along the way. The next day I took a trip to the famous Australia zoo, home of Steve Urwin, the crocodile hunter and most enthusiastic man to ever come out of Australia. I over excitedly watched his family give the main crocodile show, where his teenage daughter fed the crocs. The other highlights of my day we...

After a naff briefing given by Dingo's our tour company about avoiding the wild Dingos and how not to get your 4X4 stuck in the sand or wrapped around a tree me and two Danish girls Betina and Isabelle went for a much needed fish and chips as well as to buy some Easter chocolate for the weekend ahead. The next morning despite the limit of 2 pancakes each I managed to get 4 out of the free pancake breakfast and stuffed to the max we all went to our cars ...