Now then! From Queenstown we headed in a south-easterly direction to Dunedin. It took us like 5 hours, but again it was a magnificently scenic route. So after the lovely drive we arrived in Dunedin in the early evening and settled in to our hostel. It was a pretty sweet place. From the outside it looked like a scratty office block, but inside it was like a renevated hotel. The next day we decided to check the place out. There's not a lot to do in Dunedin. We b...

Hi again! Think its been a while since the last blog..well it feels like it anyway. We arrived in Queenstown to our first hostel (which wasn't our first choice), The Flaming Kiwi. There were loads of people living here, so when we tried to settle in it wasn't as easy as before in other hostels because everyone sort of knew each other, and it didnt really feel like our room because the other lads in there were all settled in and had places around the room for all ...

Sooo after wasting our time in Westport, we headed straight down the west coast to Franz Josef. Nearly every road trip we've been on in New Zealand has been full of amazing scenery, and this one was no exception. We were driving for about 5 hours, stopping now and then for pictures along the coast and through the mountains/rivers/lakes. We arrived in Franz Josef early in the evening, and stayed at Montrose Backpackers. We decided to explore the small town, which...

It took us a few hours to drive to Nelson from the port, and we booked into a small, friendly and cosey hostel called 'the bug'. We don't know why but it had a volkswagon beetle bug theme! The day we arrived we didn't do much as it was late on in the evening so we got settled in, made use of free tea, coffee and internet ;) The next day was probably the warmest day we have encountered in New Zealand, and it was deffo T shirt weather - or Vest for alex lol. Ben ...

Hi again guys! Before getting to Wellington we actually stopped off one night in Taupo, but the only thing that happened worth writing about is that on the way there from Rotorua, we stopped off at a volcanic spot to hike up it. We were probably 15 minutes from the summit after walking for just under an hour, when a guy on his way down told us he had a call saying his car at the bottom had got broken in to! So we decided it was best to turn and run the whole way ...