Hello from Franz Josef!! Well the past week has just gone so quickly!! We have done so much since the last blog so I will try and give you a run down on it all! Today has been one of the best days so far for all of us, we have also survived to tell the tall as well which is always good. We left the accommodation early to climb franz josef glacier. We booked on to a full day walk and after getting kitted out in walking/waterproof attire we headed off on ou...

Hi guys, We arrived in New Zealand at 11pm on Tuesday after a long day traveling. We spent a whole 4 hours at our hostel sleeping before getting up again to get our 'Magic' bus through to Rotorua. The bus is more like a tour bus as it takes us through lots of touristy spots along the way. We visited Mt Eden, an active volcano in the centre of Auckland, the town where the hobbit village scenes of Lord of the Rings was filmed, a jade factory, a maori cultural ce...