Hi all, Well it´s been a long time, I´m totally behind on this site.I´m gonna go backwards all the way to NZ cos it´s upsetting me that I have left out bits of it.I know, what a nerd.But this is a diary for me also, so I want to put it all in!!I´m actually in South America now, it´s all going so fast.But….let´s go back! So, if I can remember, we headed to Queenstown after the glacier.We got there in the evening.We´d seen lots of nice scenery along the...

Hi all, Well, after Nelson, we spent a night in Greymouth. That's all I gotta say about that...! Nothing there, arrived in eve, left early next day. To Franz Josef. You have all (I hope) seen the pics. Amazing. I've recently put some videos up, check those out, it gives you a much better idea of what it was like up there. Franz Josef is one of 3 of the worlds glaciers that are in a sub tropical environment. NZ has one other, I forget where in the world t...

So we took the ferry from Wellington to Picton to get to the South Island. That's Cook Strait. Weather wasn't too good. Othewise I would have some pics of Marlborough Sounds to show you. Views supposed to be fab, maybe we will get better weather on the way back. So we met our bus in Picton to begin our bus tour around the South Island. That took us to Nelson where we spent the next few days. Wasn't my favourite hostel. It was a strange one. Some people s...

I'm only as far as 26th Jan!! You guys are gonna be getting a lot of emails soon about updates to this site! Yippee! So we spend a day and night in Wellington before we got our ferry to the South Island. I liked Wellington a lot. Weather was lovely, we visited the Botanic Gardens. Lots of lovely flowers, nice pleasant stroll around the gardens, really enjoyed it. In the afternoon we visited the Parliment. There are 3 different Parliment Buildings, all fr...

We headed to Lake Taupo after the Waitomo Caves. We stayed there overnight, my first hostel. Wasn't too bad, one of the cleaner ones I've been to. Anyways, as you can see there was a lovely sunset. Lake Taupo is a a lovely little resort town. A lot of the houses (around Auckland also) remind me of the American Style houses we saw in Rehoboth Beach (Yvonne & Ellen). Those kinda wooden style ones. I also find that a lot of the towns and buildings on the ...