Hello again guys, We're now well into our tour of the south island of New Zealand and currently in Queenstown - the adrenalin capital of New Zealand! Before we arrived here though we took a nice scenic drive from Franz Josef to Makarora seeing some beautiful sights on route. Our first stop was Fox glacier, which is a very similar glacier to Franz Josef, we both thought that Franz Josef was slightly more impressive as the foot of the glacier was between two la...

Hi guys, following yesterdays journal we headed onward to Franz Josef and booked up to trek the glacier here. Unfortunately we couldnt get onto the 10:30am trip so we had to make do with another early start and book onto the 7:30am one. The glacier that we ended up visiting is the Franz Josef glacier and is one of only two glaciers in the world currently advancing - at around 0.05mm a day. The climate here is the main reason behind this as it rains as often as...

A big warm welcome to you all from the land of the kiwi, lambs and all things black. Yes, we have arrived in New Zealand. As we will be travelling around New Zealand over the next 12 days we have decided to do a few short journals of where we are and what were up to, so you are all up-to-date! As our phone is an Australian mobile it doesnt work out here so obviously we cant accept any messages or phone calls - sorry guys! We landed in Christchurch and within f...

Hello one and all, At the end of our great ocean road adventure we finished up in Adelaide, when we arrived here I thought Christ, there isnt much going on. In fact our tour guide Bill told us that most people say "drove through adelaide once, I think it was closed". We checked into our accommodation in Adelaide another YHA hostel, which was really nice and clean. The kitchen and games room was immaculate very impressed! We had a good read up on the ...

Just as we left you in Melbourne - guess what happened.... thats right it started to rain! Not only that but it started to get pretty cold too. Our bus for this tour was late by about an hour too so we got pretty wet waiting for him at Victoria arts centre, oh well it gave us a chance to meet a few of the guys who we would be travelling with. The first day started with a short trip to Bells Beach where the film point break was filmed - this is a world famous s...