and so we arrived in south america severely jet lagged after departing at 5:35pm on a 12hour flight from Auckland we arrive in santiago at 1pm the same day, essentially we gain 4hours whilst being in the air for 12hours - i don't think we will ever get our heads around that one!!!!!!i don't think we quite appreciated how different traveling in south america would be following the ease of moving around australia, new zealand and to a lesser extent thailand. i am n...

from fiji we landed in Auckland in the north island of new zealand, we stayed here for around 3 days, the purpose being to organise ourselves and prepare ourselves for the coming month - warm winter clothes etc. after several days we booked on the bus for the following morning, however the night before we decided to quite sensibly go out drinking!!!with no alarm clock to awake us at 8am in the morning, because we had both lost our phones in recent weeks, it was q...

from australia we headed to fiji at last a bit of sun before before heading to the cold climates of new zealand. so with the course of anti-biotics still underway for the majority of the week alcohol was off the agenda, fiji is essence proved a valuable detox period for me. it is probably worth saying at this point we originally had no intention of going to fiji but we had had an extra stop in our round the world ticket so we were advised that this may be a good...

right big big apologies, yes the last journal update was some four weeks ago i believe - so i will have to attempt to fill you in on our last few weeks in oz so it will probably be scratchy to say the least! so from brisbane we headed to nimbin - possibly the strangest place ever, if you have never been there it is pretty much hippie town where the police have very laxed laws on drugs - everyone is stoned pretty much all the time - don't panic mother it was...

after arriving in picton in the south island we head down the west coast to nelson where we spend a drunk night and then onto poo bar, yes that's right poo bar, a bar run by an 89 year old ex all black where we, the bus has a mass fancy dress party (i was elated poor chris was mortified) it was only on route we discovered the men were to dress as girls and the girls dress in bin bags (i think this may have been a perverted preference of our driver, as previous gr...