We only had one evening in Wanaka, but it is gorgeous! We watched the sunset over the lake and then went to the cinema. Not your average cinema though- they have sofas and 2 Morris minors instead of seats, and they sell freshly baked cookies in the interval (we deffinitely need one in Sheffield and Bristol!). They also have some amazing ice cream- including white chocolate baileys *melts* (aka the one I had my heart set on since we arrived in wanaka and came to s...

So we arrived at Noosa (apparently Richard Bransons about its place in Australia) and it is so nice!! Very pretty, quite nice for a holiday. Our hostels nice too, we have a mini lounge and kitchen area basically to ourselves- complete with freezer AND oven. Haven't seen those since, I don't even know when! We went for a walk in the national park which was really nice, you could watch people surfing as you walked along the coast and we saw another koala. We made t...

The ferry to the south island is about 3 hours, the views are supposed to be amazing, but I hate to say I fell asleep for basically the whole journey! :/ Its a good thing we go back to the north island! Our first stop was Kaiteriteri, driving through Marlborough Valley (very scenic and famous for its Sauvignon blanc) and Havelock- the greenlip mussel capital of the world. We arrived lateish and left the next day so we didn't get to see much, but I did have a walk...

Our flight was only three hours, but air new zealand made it a very good three hours- food AND wine, such a luxury after jet star charging for water!! So basically New Zealand is AMAZING. We had four weeks in the most gorgeous country in the world. We started in Auckland, the biggest city, where basically a 1/4 of the population lives. Dan met us at the airport and the next day we went for breakfast at Takapuna beach (chai latte and eggs Benedict with salmon- d...

We arrived at rainbow beach, made some dinner and had an early night, ready for our horribly early wake up the next day. We got up and after breakfast had to watch some videos about driving on sand, camping and general safety on Fraser island. Most people had done it yesterday but we arrived to late, so had to do it this morning. There was only one other person doing it with us, who turned out to be Hannah's boyfriend. After the videos everyone got into their gro...