We arrived in "Windy Wellington" quite late in the evening so drove to a small area outside the main city to park up for the night. After spending a day charging up and finding out there are no freedom campsites in Wellington, Antonio had managed to find a campsite in Porirua (District of Wellington) that would allow us to stay for free in exchange for an hour's work a day each. We drove up and met the manager who explained the work and we decided to st...

On our way to Nelson we stopped off in Greymouth to charge up the van, there was not a lot to do there so the next day we headed up to Nelson. After finding a freedom camping site we met up with Chris and Kirsty for a few drinks and spent the evening in our camper. The next day we explored Nelson seeing the queen's gardens, the Cathedral and the oldest street in New Zealand which still has the original cottages on it. Before leaving Nelson we also did walk which ...

On our way to the glaciers we stopped at Haast gate which is a huge rushing river & then at a waterfall where Antonio went down to the water to get a pic & got bit to death by sand flies. We then spent 2 sunny days in Fox glacier charging the van before heading to Franz Josef. We arrived in Franz and headed to Chateau Franz motel which is part of the same chain we stayed in in Christchurch. We arranged with the motel that we would do 1 and half hours cl...

We arrived in Queenstown to glorious sunshine and after finding out the nearest freedom campsite was 12km out of town we decided just to park up on a street that had free parking. We spent the day getting to know the place better before Antonio got the best news he had received in weeks...That one of the bars was showing a replay of the Man U VS City game!!! This was the afternoon taken care of! That evening we went to meet Chris and Kirsty for a few drinks at a ...

After a long drive we arrived in the small town of Teanau and after visiting the info centre decided to head half way up the well known Milford Road towards the Milford Sounds. As we could not afford to do the cruises or kayaking at the end of the 121km drive we decided to head around 80km of the way up and see the sights along the way. Our first stop was mirror lakes which are small lakes set amongst the grass and reflects the Earl mountains opposite. The water ...