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...

As I turned another year older this week, it got me thinking about what I have been doing and have had an annual review. My 23rd year commenced with me going skiing for the first time, working hard-ish for a major savings plan, suffering my first major bout of sea sickness in Portugal while chilling with my Leeds girls, a little more work, followed by experiencing a multitude of cultures, having a Singapore sling at the Raffles hotel, seeing iconic landmarks and ...

What have i been up to this last few days in Mission beach? Just the usual, relaxing, walking, sky diving out of a plane at 14,000 feet!! When we arrived to our very nice hostel, Absolute backpackers, we were third time lucky in getting upgraded to a four bed air conditioned room. It is nice to have a room to ourselves for a few nights, although it seems to mean we just have more space to spread our belongings around. Ruth had finally decided she was going to do...