Sea sickness my a**e! The journey across the Cook Straight was certainly choppy and the ferry moved about a fair bit but thankfully I was fine and there was minimal sea sickness in our group. That said I did sit between the two worst affected people from our bus which wasn't the greatest! We walked off the ferry to be greeted by sleet and a biting wind! The promise of better weather seemed a long way off as we trudged across a big car park to pick up our bags so ...

So after a great time in Australia it was off to Auckland. I'd left Fos sleeping off his hangover and was left to contend with my own at the airport! Thankfully it was only a 3 hour hop to New Zealand and the flight was smooth so all was well once my raging headache had dispersed! I lost 3 hours with the time change going to New Zealand so after a trouble free trip through immigration at the airport and an equally good shuttle bus into the centre of Auckland, I h...

The flight to Australia would take me right through the night and I was planning on catching some sleep on the way but the flight was interrupted by a 2 and a half hour stopover in Darwin which I hadn't anticipated. It was 3am when we landed in Darwin so a little bleary eyed, I decided to try to kill some time by testing out my new PC. Thankfully I managed to find a wireless hotspot in the airport so I was surfing the web in no time. The time flew by and we wer...