When we arrived, we went straight to the Base hostel where Nathan and Shaun are staying, also David (lad we travelled with in Vietnam). We checked if they had a car park we could use but they didn't, there was one we could use for $8 a day but it didn't seem worth it. The only campsite in Auckland is quite a way out of the city and costs $20 a night so we had a discussion and decided that taking the Camper van back to the depot early and then paying $24 a night...

We got off the ferry about 6pm in Wellington and headed to Base hostel to park in their car park. Then we used the hostels facilities to cook dinner and have a shower etc. It was Wednesday night which is student night here and one of the cheapest and best nights to go out… so we thought we may as well! We started in the hostel bar and had a few games of pool before heading up the road into the city where we spent the rest of the night. Next morning we got...

We arrived back to Christchurch around 6pm and all the lads were out watching a rugby match they had tickets for, but they left a key out for us. So we cooked our dinner, then went and picked the boys up when they had finished. We then just had a chilled Friday night watching films etc ready for a night out tomorrow and so we could wake up early the next day! We set alarms for just before 7am so we could wake up and watch the England football game vs Per...

We woke up at Skaj and Fozzy's house ( Nathan and Shaun's mates ) made breakfast, then head off back to Franz Josef where the Fox Glacier is. The scenery along the way was beautiful as usual, which doesn't make the journey seem as long - 5 hours! We arrived at the same hostel/campsite we stayed at last time we were here. This is the one where we actually met Nathan and Shaun in the hot-tub originally…. It's not how it looks!! After parking up, we had a soak i...

We arrived in Christchurch and had no idea where Nathans friend's house was so we went looking for a hostel called the YMCA, we couldn't find it so it was a bit awkward four blokes in a camper van asking passers-by where the YMCA was. Luckily people knew what we were on about so it was ok. Christchurch was hit by a massive earthquake about three years ago and was pretty much destroyed, a lot of people had said to us that there is nothing to do there and that mo...