Our first stop down was surfers paradise, although it was all very modern it wasn't tasteful, pretty soulless and unfortunately the weather wasn't great! We stayed in a good hostel though and strangely bumped into some people we had met in Vietnam! We got conned into paying for a bar crawl which we went for as it was so cheap they said we'd have a BBQ but ended up being a few sausages and some bread! It started at 5 so all the places we went to were completey dea...

The greyhound took us from surfers paradise to Byron Bay, arriving there around 11am! We found a hostel called 'Arts Factory' that was full of hippies but was quite a cool place. We went for a look around the town and found a similar sort of vibe to the hostel that everyone was so friendly and chilled out and had the typical 'hippie' look to them. The town was small, just a beach and a parade of shops and restaurants and one supermarket. But the weather was defin...

Rotorura was a very smelly place - this was due to the sulphur, definitley wouldn't want to stay longer than a night or 2, this evening we went to a Maori village where they had recreated what it would of been like, this was very interesting and was followed by a massive feast of all you can eat! The next day we headed to Taupo, the lake is meant to be the same size as Singapore. We both had decided to do a skydive, so excited but petrified at the same time, we b...

We arrived in Brisbane after a flight from Christchurch, got picked up by my dads first cousin Jason and his wife, they kindly let us stay with them for a few days and we had a lovely meal out for dinner with my great aunt at a steak house! Was so nice to meet everyone and lovely to see lalage again. We then headed down to byron bay and surfers paradise but after 4 nights down south we came back up to brisbane and spent 2 nights in the centre where one day we spe...

Leaving our secluded and loved wooden cabin in river valley we started out journey to Wellington with plenty of stories to tell and hear from the group from the day and night! The majority of the day was spent travelling and stopping off a various lakes and waterfalls (including the one were Gollum was found fishing) and jumping off in the water! By the time we arrived in Wellington we all felt for a chilled night as we'd been travelling all day, we checked into ...