On our trip to Invercargill, we had a new driver, who I got on with quite well. He bought his Scottish girlfriend with him on the trip, and the fun we had with these two chatting was comedy genious. The bus had taken a toll as well, Hemel and Berko were on a different one, but we still had the team which now included Declan and Jen from Ireland (who had been traveling with us for a while) a french gril we called Frenchy to her distaste, and a brilliant Northern l...

Our"bottom bus" leg had begun, this is where the kiwi experience gets a little smaller, around 20 or so people to each mini bus. So the 8am start didnt bode well for little miss Alma (skippy) as i refer to her as! Her little bouncy Irish self, was violently sick twice on route to Dunedin. And to be honest this was probably the highlight of the journey. Dunedin is normaly looked upon as a college town, crazy during term time. But as we pulled up we were ...

So to my distress we had to leave Wanaka! I imagine my grandkids growing up there one day..absolutely stunning, and headed for the Nightlife, adventue capital of New Zealand, Queenstown. On the way the time had come to take life to a new extreme. Yes I decided to book not one but three bungy jumps (code named the Thrillogy). It was only $350 and since one as over $190 i thought why not. I had nearly bugy jumped before in Falaraki all those years back, but decide...

So we left Franz Joseph behind us, with one more memory to lodge, my first ever game of paintball! And my god does that hurt! I tell you now I could never be in the Marines, I was shockingly bad! I got shot so many times I had bruises all over me! One because one of the girls got carried away and shot me from close range, oh my god did that hurt. Got her back by shooting her in the arse! Ha! I was getting really into it though, running and jumping over logs and l...

Now the morning came and we had to meet at 8am, I was up like a shot, had my picnic packed and all ready to tackle the Glacier and the 8 hour hike! Stepped outside and it was chucking it down with rain! Brilliant, so I was going to get wet... By the time I made it to the check in I was soaked through. We were given Hats, boots, spikes, gloves, jackets and trousers to wear which were cool, since I couldn’t get any wetter, and then driven to the car park by t...