This morning we woke to rain battering the van, we were in two minds as to what to do. Apparently in the rain though you get to see more waterfalls down the mountains than usual and it's still pretty good but we don't have waterproofs and we were thinking if you can't get outside is it going to be worth it. We decided to go, check out for the campsite was 10.00am anyway so we left around 9.00am. We parked close to the offices and went to see about a cruise, the r...

Overnight in the car park was fine apart from it being absolutely freezing! We got up and treated ourselves by setting off to Mcdonalds, breakfast, free wifi and most importantly warmth. After eventually feeling warm again we hit the road. We are heading for Milford Sound today, which is a Fiord (a narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity-thanks wikipedia). It's a long five hour drive to get all the way from here in Queenstown...

We've decided that there's loads more we want to do in Queenstown so we're going to stay another night. Although not in a pay for place, doing a little freedom camping somewhere. We checked out at 11.00am, we'd read about a farmer's market which was on the same site as the movie last night so we drove there first to see what it was. It was really small, I'm not sure why but we were expecting something bigger. It was nice though, food, drinks and live music. We di...

We got up quite early this morning and set off pretty quickly. We did manage to get a good day time look at the giant fruit and get a few photos to boot. The clouds were really low and just cutting across the middle of the mountains so the tops were peaking out, it looked amazing. The drive to Queenstown was a quick one, only 45 minutes away. We'd decided to go for a paid campsite tonight so headed straight for the site. After paying for a site we chose where to ...

Yet another freezing cold night, ice on the inside again! At least we had managed to stay a little warmer with having the two duvets each. We'd just had time to put the kettle on when a JCB started clearing some snow away near the front of the van. We moved to a different part of the car park to pack everything away, he was getting a little too close for comfort. We sat for a little while wondering what to do today, there are loads of walks but we just don't have...