We drove to Dunedin right across to the East coast of the South Island and hoped that we might get some sun. On the first day it rained again, all day!! Boooo. But the second day, although it was still cold, we didn't have to come out in full waterproof force so things were looking up. We went to Lanarch castle in the morning, which was built by the Lanarch family in the 1800's. Some of the rooms were a bit creepy and had a really eerie feeling but the house was...

We drove to Te Anau, the main town before Milford Sounds. Originally we had decided that we would go to Doubtful Sounds instead, as Milford would mean going back on ourselves. But then we got talking to some guys at the campsite and they said that the drive down to Milford was really worth it and that you could see plenty without having to pay $200 for a day trip. So after lunch we jumped in the van and headed to Milford. About 10 minutes into the drive we saw a...

On our drive to Queenstown, the views were amazing and the sun was shining for a change. It was a long 5 hour drive and we were pleased when we arrived and were settled in the campsite. The following day we drove to Arrowtown, about half an hour down the road and we went for a nice walk around a little river. We found a lovely little French cafe which did pancakes and Orangina (& Ant was dying for a Galette!) so we treated ourselves to lunch there whilst sit...

On the way to Franz Josef we stopped over night at Greymouth. Again, not much really happening there and it was raining but we spent the whole afternoon in the campsite TV room and had steak and red wine for dinner so all was not lost! The next morning we went to the Shanty town, which is an old mining town with a working steam train. It was pretty cool and got some good black and white pictures of Ant playing silly b@ggers and looking quite the part with his mo...

Murchison was quite a small town and didn't have a lot going on, but we wanted to try Whitewater rafting so we booked ourselves in for the next morning at Bulla Gorge and just had a little wonder round the tiny town. The next day we went back into town and started getting ready. The group of people we were with were a really good laugh and there were people from France, Australia, the Uk and a few other places. All in all it was a nice mixture. The couple from A...