Hi Everyone, After two amazing weeks in Sydney, we made our way to Coffs Harbour for two nights. This was a lovely break from a busy city, and we relaxed there on the beach. We then travelled up to Ballina, where we met up with some friends we met in New Zealand, Matt, Mark and Jason who kindly let us stay in his unit for five nights, saving us lots of money. We also managed to meet up with Jami and Alex in Ballina, two of the girls from our New Zealand travels...

Hey everyone, We've now been in Australia since Wednesday 13th Feb, when we flew into Sydney from New Zealand. Sydney has been lovely and we've seen all the main sights, visiting the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour, The Rocks, Chinese Gardens (where we dressed up in traditional Chinese clothes, quite embarrassing, but luckily no photos to prove it ever happened)!! We've also been to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Manly beach, Bondi beach, Palm beach (w...

Well, our tour has now come to an end and we are both very sad. We've made some great friends and will hopefully be meeting up with some of them further into our travels. Our South Island adventures began back on February 3rd, where we boarded the Inter-Island Ferry and did the North to South Island hop to Picton. From there we travelled by coach to Christchurch. On the way we stopped off to admire some of the seal colonies along the coast. Josie wanted to take...

Hey guys, We've now been away from home for two weeks and are having an amazing time! We started our Contiki tour a week ago now and have travelled the North Island of New Zealand. We're in a large group of lots of different nationalities, all really fun and friendly people. The tour has taken us to the Bay of Islands, where we spent our first two nights. We went on a dolphin and whale watching boat trip, but sadly we weren't able to swim with them, as the dolp...

Hey everyone, Our first week has flown by and we're having an amazing time in Auckland. The weather started off as we left it in England...rainy! But has been really lovely and hot the last few days, so we've been doing lots of sunbathing! Auckland is a beautiful city. We've been up the Sky Tower, to admire some great views, down to the harbour and on a ferry ride to a neighbouring island, Waiheke, to sunbathe on their beautiful beach. We start our Contiki Exp...