Yeah, we've made it to Australia and managed to escape from our horrible hostel at Coogee 2 days before christmas. Our apartment is really cool, right in the city centre close to Circular Quay, Darling harbour, Shops, The Opera House, pubs, clubs and more shops...... The first few weeks have gone incredibly quickly, really nice being settled in a place and not living out of a bag anymore. Have been to a couple of beaches - Bondi, Coogee and Palm Beach ...

The Franz Josef glacier was fantastic and very scary at times especially when your as clumsy as I am !! We got special hiking boots that we attached spikes to so we didn't slip and our own ice picks. We were really lucky with the weather, it was the first day of sunshine for a long time (couldn't imagine doing it when it was raining, it would be absolutely freezing). Some of the cracks that we had to walk through were very small and some of the gaps we had...

Queenstown is a really cool place, it reminds me of a ski village. Its definately the place to go out and party and do any crazy adventure activity you can think of! The bars are open very late....not a good idea to stay in them until they close and then have to be on a bus at 7.30!! Although I didn't really learn from the first time and decided it was a good idea to do it again when we got back to Queenstown when we got back there after we had been to Dun...

Have been in Wellington for a couple of days now and can fully understand why its called Windy city! Apparantly they have 3-4 earthquakes here a year that you can feel but am really hoping that dosen't happen while we are here. They have got so many cool shoe shops here - I could spend so much money on shoes (if I had any money and had room to carry them in my backpack). Think I went in nearly every shoe shop in Wellington yesterday but I had a good excuse...

Wow - went white water rafting this morning in Grade 5 rapids. It was so much fun. The river was freezing but we had to go in so we knew what it was like to swim in rapids in case we capsized further down the river! We managed to avoid turning over completely - just. We were so close to complete capsizing but just managed to stop ourselves in time. Got very confused with jumping to the left and right especially after we swapped sides after we stopped to...