Sunday 27th April 2008 and we all finally arrived in NZ. James after a monster, marathon of a flight and the other lads after a pants scary, turbulent, lightning filled flight. Safely down and a few customs checks there was a big meet and greet at the hostel. Readily acquainted it was off to break our no fast food NZ pact by strolling straight into the Arches. Lasted about 8 seconds! After a couple of hours catch up it was off to bed for steady nights sleep!...

The evening of Tuesday 22nd April 2008 we arrived (after a pricey taxi ride) in St Kilda, Melbourne. The city looked very nice on the way in and the lads were about 15 minute tram ride outside of the centre. Big hugs all round when Luke and Chris were reunited with Matt. How are we going to let the big man go?? Chucked our bags in and decided to have a catch up over some beers. To our delight there was a quiz on (the Wet Bandits specialist activity). Teaming up w...

Thursday 17th April 2008 Luke and Chris headed off to Alice Springs for some sunshine and Ayres Rock action!!! The lads both tested the weight limit at the airport and soon found themselves stuffing their day sack with whatever weighed the most, whilst the most racist bloke ever tried some friendly chit chat. A short flight and a taxi ride later we arrived at Annie's place (our cheapest accomadation for a long time!). Pretty basic and a lot of European's kicking ...

Arrived in Sydney on the Wednesday 9th April 2008. As expected it was another epic journey on the Greyhound with 4 classic films. Is there a Lindsay Lohan film we have not seen?? Rubbish. Rolled in to Wake Up! our hostel and simply hit the sack. Not as young as we once were....... Up at the crack of mid-day on the Thursday and decided that it would be a chilled one. Cruised out down to the shops for our first glimpse of the city centre. Really nice and really bu...

Arrived on Saturday 5th April 2008. Having failed to plan ahead as the travel guide had fallen in love with a stripper, we had to improvise for the first night. Managed to get booked into the YHA in a double room (that's not two singles) for the 3 of us. Luke 'The Shy Horse' Purchase had to carry Matt's gear in whilst he waited in town. Chris meanwhile got some quizzing looks from the receptionist when telling her his guests name he'd be sharing a bed with. After...