Even just flying in to Christchurch and looking out of the window you could see that this place was beautiful. When we landed it was a balmy 20 degrees and we were freezing, straight away out came the musty jumpers and trousers that had barely seen the light of day for the last few months and it was still cold! Our theory is its preparing us for our homecoming in March. Anyways Christchurch is a beautiful city, really clean, quite spacious and just a nice place t...

The home of the great barrier reef, i was excited and luckily the weather was holding out too as rain was predicted. First night ended in some serious drinking on a pub crawl we got hooked into and we got very very VERY drunk, and it ended up with dancing on tables and doing handstands which is about either of us remembers. The following afternoon was spent sunathing by the lagoon where we met up with some friends we'd made en route from Darwin to Alice Springs. ...

After being on the road for so long Sydney always felt like it was aaaages away yet here it was and the thing we had been looking forward to...a home for 2 whole weeks. We moved into our apartment in Sydney and it was really nice. We unpacked the rucksacks and hid them in the bottom of the wardrobe and plopped onto our sofa infront of our tv and we didnt have to share it was 30 other people, and to be honest that was where we spent a lot of the next 2 weeks. We d...

Our arrival was at 4am so our first impression were not all that brilliant. My first sleep in Aus was on the floor of the international arrivals lounge and was not all the comfortable then we had to wait hours for a shuttle bus to come and take us to our accomodation. Finally we did get in and we liked what we saw, it was funky and clean with a kitchen, and the obligatory plastic croc by the side of the pool (which no hostel in Aus would be complete without!) an...