We bid a fond farewell to New Zealand heading off in the next stage of our trip. Melbourne for a couple of days before driving along the Great Ocean Road - very excited! We go solo from today, it's been lovely to have the time with George's family in Australia and with Richard and Sophie in New Zealand - very special. New Zealand is a stunningly beautiful country - we will definitely be back. It joins the Super Trees and Koalas on my ever growing list of favour...

We ventured out on a 190k, 4 hour drive to Milford Sound (Piopiotahi) in the Fjordland National Park. The journey was pretty heavy going lots of rain & bendy roads don't mix too well. Mr H did a great job, me as co- driver (back seat driver). We stopped off for coffee at Te Anau, the half way point. We are joining the MV Sinbad for a two hour nature cruise of the fjords out to the Tasman Sea. It's pretty fresh here, the rain has stopped although it rains ...

Another early morning - Adrenaline Day! Checked in for our bridge swing and waited for what seemed like an eternity, a 40 minute drive & we were there. We had chosen the biggest swing in the world; Nevis, a 70m drop and 300m arc. We were first out across the wobbly bridge, that was scary enough on its own. I opted to go first, I figured that would be the least terrifying. It's fine when you get out there, you are always hooked up to one device. You sit i...

Up early & on our way to Queenstown a short one hour drive away. We stopped off at puzzle world, saw some great illusions, a couple of advertising brand things I had never realised - did you know there are Kiwis hidden in the Canterbury rugby brand logo CCC, I didn't! We spent an hour getting lost in the maze - you had to reach the four corners, all going swimmingly up to the last one where I have to confess to taking a short cut! Arriving in cool & tre...

After 5 hours, lots of hill climbs and around 250 miles on the clock we arrived in Wanaka to break our journey before heading on to Queenstown for a few days tomorrow. The scenery is vast and breathtaking in every way, the pictures don't really capture the scale or the beauty. We had a coffee stop over at Lake Tekapo, an enormous piece of carrot cake and on with the journey. We arrived in hip & trendy Wanaka, took a walk down to the town via the sunset on ...