So Taupo, the skydiving capital of New Zealand...there was me promising that never in my life that I would ever skydive and here I was, standing at the desk and signing my life away. What an absolutely ridiculous thing to do. Not really though as I started to get a bit excited but also very very nervous. Anyway, it turns out that we are not diving until 1pm that day so we headed into town to get some lunch and we were told to call at 12.40 to check we are all on ...

Rotorua, the land of smells! It took us a while to get here from Auckland and we arrived in the dark. We drove past a park and the familiar smell of a stink bomb hit my nose and that was it for the next few days! It wasn't that it smelt constantly so your nose got used to it and stopped smelling it, it just kept on wafting up now and then and catching you by surprise. On our first day we decided that we would chill out and head down to the park to look at all o...

I was terrified when we were told on the plane that the temperature was around 15 degrees and it was raining in Auckland. For just over two weeks we had been lucky if the temperature dropped below 28 degrees and the prospect of being cold and in the rain in my flip flops was not nice. We finally made it out into the rain and wind and made our way to Base backpacker where we were staying for the first night. A lovely double room with a bathroom. We were unable to ...

Our final destination in Fiji was Nadi (pronounced Nandi). It was different to say the least. We got shown to our dorm room which resembled a prison cell, well it was actually smaller than a prison cell and more cramped. We immediately asked for a double room, I could no longer cope with dorms and needed some space. We were going to get one the following day as there were none free. That night we had to endure banging doors and people getting up really early spen...

On first impressions from the Yasawa Flyer, Beachcomber Island looked absolutely beautiful. It was tiny, a bit bigger than South Sea Island but still small enough to walk around in less than 15 minutes. As we got on the connecting boat we felt a bit like cattle as we were crowded onto a boat. This feeling did not stop as we felt the eyes of the island checking us all out as the boat turned up. There were tons of people on this island, all staring at us and all si...