Sixth day in New Zealand now! Suprisingly there have been less sheep than we expected, but a strange amount of cows. BUt more importantly on the first three days on the bus, we had some thrilling experiences! Its gonna be a long blog.............We left auckland on sunday for the 1st leg of our tour, to a coastal town called Mercury bay(Whitianga). We travel with a group of about 50 people of different nationalities (althohg mainly english), so its great to meet...

Second day in Auckland and i'm already falling deeper in love with the city. It has to be the most comfortable city on the planet. It's not too hot, but still hot enough, it's so clean, the pavements are ridiculously wide, the buttons for crossing the road have this really futuristic sound and there's a timer counting down from about 20 seconds at the crossings showing you how much time you have to cross the road. It makes something as simple as crossing the road...

Second day in Auckland and i'm already falling deeper in love with the city. It has to be the most comfortable city on the planet. It's not too hot, but still hot enough, it's so clean, the pavements are ridiculously wide, the buttons for crossing the road have this really futuristic sound and there's a timer counting down from about 20 seconds at the crossings showing you how much time you have to cross the road. It makes something as simple as crossing the road...

Our first place to stay in New Zealand was the wonderfully named 'Fat Camel' ijn Auckland. We soon realised that it was the perfect place top have picked when we saw the sign 'Mud Wrestling in the bar. Tonight'. More of that later. We decided to make the most of Auckalnd. as at the time we though we only had one day here. However, a minor mishap with the bus schedule meant that we now had three days here. Not a problem. After sorting ourselves out at the hostel...

And so we came to our last day in Fiji. Just like that it's one country ticked off our list already! For a country that we weren't even considering going to at first, we are going to take away some of the best experiences and memories. Yesterday we explored a different part of the main island. We took a long bus journey down to the south coast. About as far away as portsmouth, but very different. And a lot better! (sorry shez). From there we got on a motorised c...