The sun has finally come out to warm us up! We awoke on Tuesday morning to find our bedrooms toasty hot and had our breakfast sat in the sun by the lake! We drove over to the airport to take the van into the Jucy office, as advised, to get the faults fixed. While we were waiting we took a look around the show vehicles and jealously looked at the larger condo version with all the space and facilities! Out of interest, Sally asked how much more it would cost and a...

Thankfully the weather has improved slightly. It isn't as rainy and the nights have not been as freezing, but it is still pretty cold so we are wearing all our clothes! We woke up in Invercargill and went to a nearby garage to get the van windscreen wipers fixed. This got charged to the company, so that was good for our purses! We stocked up on food and went to seek out some Internet to look up cheap camp sites. Stephen came and met up with us again for a coffe...

We are now happy campers! We took a ridiculously long shuttle bus that gave us the full tour of Christchurch and the surrounding areas until we reached our Jucy campervan office. We were shown our van and how it works. It is bright green and purple and is more spacious than we expected but seems huge to drive! As nice as Christchurch was, it was a little dull, after ten minutes of driving out of town, the landscape was more green and we started to get better view...

We have arrived in New Zealand! And we are absolutely freezing! After saying goodbye to the Quigley family, Rachel kindly dropped us off at the airport so we could catch our flight down to Briabane. From here we had a 10 hour wait and surprisingly had a comfortable snooze. We got up at 5am to check-in and took our flight over to Christchurch on New Zealand's south island. After some confusion, we picked up a cheapish shuttle bus to take us to our hostel Point B...