Hello everyone. This is my last night in what has been a really good weekend in the capital, Wellington. The whole group has found it to be much nicer than Auckland, everything is much more compact and there is a nice vibe about the place. Over the weekend I haven't really done anything that exciting I am afraid. Yesterday we had a look around the city centre at all the shops and I stocked up on my collection of T-shirts. In the evening the whole group got to...

Have just arrived in Wellington and will now be here for the next 3 nights, after which we take the ferry and make our way to the South Island. Yesterday we left Taupo and made our way to River Valley, a really nice place in the middle of nowhere with just the one hostel. The place was like it had been purpose built for a Cozens you hostel trip! On the way we stopped at Tangariro national park where a lot of Lord of the Rings had been filmed and I got a photo in ...