Blog Day 234 Sunday 25th Dec 2011 Christmas Day!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! First off it doesn't feel like Christmas day at all! In fact it doesn't even feel like a Sunday! We are up early and down in the lobby in our Santa hats by 7am. The staff on reception are all in fantastic spirits and before we know it we are holding a plastic glass of bubbly and smiling for the camera. The Milford Explorer bus picks us up at around 7.30 and after a photo in front ...

Blog Day 232-233 Friday 23rd- Saturday 24th Dec 2011 Queenstown! Day 1- So today we enjoy a well deserved lie in, we are finding that the time is just flying by & we are cramming so much in. It's also really nice that we have a nice big room with our own bathroom & a king-size bed, this bed is so huge in fact that we cant even find each other at night. Another good thing is that the curtain is really thick therefore blocking out all the light meaning...

Blog Day 231 Thursday 22nd December 2011 Road trip to Queenstown Today we leave Franz Josef and head down to Queenstown. We are up pretty early and our legs are still like jelly. Chicken Boy picks us up at around 7.10am and we head off out of town. Again on the way down to Queenstown we stop at a few scenic places to break up the journey. Today is full of probably the most spectacular scenery either of us have ever seen………..ever! Our first stop is ...

Blog Day 229 Tuesday 20th December 2011 Franz Josef After a pretty good nights sleep we are up at 9am this morning and out of the room by 10am. After an eggy breakfast Dan gets to work trying to get us a discounted rate for a Franz Josef glacier walk tomorrow. This involves speaking to the lady who deals with group bookings, then phoning back home to get his Dad to send an introductory letter to the company, then waiting till we get to the glacier walk offic...

Blog Day 228 Monday 19th December 2011 Greymouth We are up at 7am this morning, and out as quietly as possible so as not to disturb Diem too much. We don't succeed with this as Diem pretty much follows us out the door. By 8.15 we are on the bus and making our way out of Marahau. After only 10 minutes on the bus we stop of at a local bakery as Chooks (aka Chicken Boy) claims that in the mornings he can't function properly without coffee. We all pile off the...