HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!! In sydney at the moment staying with chris's uncle and it just so happens that loads of people from around are trip just happen to be in sydney at the moment as well....so tonight should be a good night. The trip is now nearing an end and im running out of stupid and dangerous things to do, but 2 days before leaving fiji i manged to do something that i told myself other people were stupid to do only 5 months ag...

We've left new zealand and are again fully submerging ourselves in island life in fiji.........where they insist the're no longer cannables but still seem to mention it a bit too often. After leaving rotorua we spent a fairly uneventful day in auckland followed by a pretty fun night saying goodbye to some friends who were headed back to england the next day. Then the next day headed up to the northern part of nz to the bay of islands where the majority of stuff y...

We are now on the north island which is notably busier and more populated (and warmer) but there are still endless stretches of beautiful countryside (if not quite as varied as in the south). For our last day in Queenstown money meant we had to choose between doing the worlds 3rd highest bungee jump (8.5 secs of freefall, 118ish metres) or what is know as a canyon swing, we opted for the canyon swing. This involves starting at the edge of a cliff 109 meters u...

Well we are now well and truley settled in new zealand and it is awsome, the scenery is simply stunning, all around you and hugely diverse from waterfalls, to glaciers, to mountains and beaches. After our initial adaption to the costs of things we have also had to adapt to a new style of travel, in asia despite everything being cheap you can also just wonder around and something interesting will happen this is less so in new zealand (although we did stumble acros...

Thats right we are now in new zealand (which means im actually writing this from tomorrow......creepy) this is the land of the haka, sheep and a suprisingly british feel, including the weather. In a way its nice to see the queens head on money again but the problem is that money seems to disapear alot quicker outside of asia. sorry its taken me so long to write a new blog but i wanted to wrap all of the rest of asia up into one final and fairly epic blog. From ...