We arrived in Queenstown after a looong journey from Fran Josef and another early start. We liked the place straight away as it had a really good feeling about it. Unfortunately, we didn't have a chance to sample the nightlife as we had to get to bed early in order to get up at 5.30am for our trip to Milford Sound. We managed to make it to the bus in time and settled down for a 6 hour journey to Milford Sound. It sounds horrific but half the fun of the trip is th...

Franz Josef is small but very pretty. We stayed at Glow Worm Cottages hostel just for two nights as we had booked to do a full day hike of the Franz Josef glacier. It was an eight hour hike with six hours in total on the ice - which is quite a long time especially when you are cold and wet! Even though we were aching all over the next day and the day after that it was definitely worth it. The trip started with an hour walk through the valley before getting to the...

On Wednesday 21st January we said farewell to Australia and hello to NEW ZEALAND. We arrived in Christchurch that afternoon to hot temperatures despite being repeatedly told NZ is much cooler than Oz. We had booked to stay at the Jailhouse Hostel - which as the name implies used to be a real Jail and still has some of its original features. Realised pretty quickly that there isn't much to do in and around Christchurch but luckily while we were there the World Fam...