The drive from Franz Josef to Greymouth took about 2 and a half hours and not much to report, just the usual twisty turny roads. We had booked an evening at a hostel there called Noah's Ark as I wanted to wake up in an actual bed on my birthday as opposed to another evening in the Spaceship! Had a lovely double room with a massive comfy bed, TV and DVD player, aptly named the Cat Room with appropriate decorations everywhere! Could have been worse - there was also...

Left Queenstown on Thursday 18th for a couple of days driving to the glaciers on the West Coast. Thursday morning we took a bit of a detour out of Queenstown to a place called Glenorchy - 50km north of Queenstown and at the end of a dead end road hence had to return the way we had come to then leave Queenstown and drive out west...but also one of the main places used to film Lord of the Rings and other films such as Narnia and the like. After some breakfast in to...

Tues 16th....BUNGY DAY!!!!! AAHHHHHHHH. and also our 4 year anniversary, AWWWW ;o) Why we thought jumping 135m to our death was a romantic thing to do I have no idea but no backing out now.... Alarm set for just before 9 so had time to get ready, have quick Starbucks breakfast and then feel almightily sick in anticipation of throwing myself 135m down into a canyon - Dan was revelling in it, weirdo. Had to be at the Station for 10am where we got weighed (depressi...

Woke up at 9 on the Sun 14th and after a quick teeth brush and an even quicker shower ($1 for 6 minutes....between us!) we were on the road.....AHHHHHH! Headed down the coast from Christchurch on what was a pretty boring drive for 3 and a half hours - very straight flat roads with the odd field of cows/sheep/llamas through Timaru and stopped for lunch in Oamaru. Found a nice cafe called Roost where after some yummy hot food and drinks we were ready to hit the ro...

So we were still in Sydney! After about 4 hours sleep, we were back up to check out and book the airport shuttle at 4.45 am, urgh! Not much to report except we were bloody tired, grumpy and other than some overpriced breakfast had nothing to entertain us until our flight at 7.15am to Christchurch. On the plus side the flight only took about 3 hours and we did get to nap and get fed some free cereal, simple things! :o) Landed in Christchurch just before midday and...