In Chicago now, its bloody freezing, brass monkeys, arrived on Sunday evening & the cold hit me quick. It was snowing yesterday which was nice but I havent felt my hands in a few days, I dont have a jacket & aint buying one so Im heading out with about 3 jumpers on.The city is s*** cool, its basically New York on smaller scale, its a pity I've ran out of money & heading home tomorrow evening as I would love to stay here for an extra few days. Its ...

Last Saturday Chris & I hired a car & did a road trip around the east coast of the North Island. We started in Auckland & drove about 6 hours to a place called Whakatane, a small town iwth a couple of pubs in it. It was a Saturday night but the place was dead so we just had a few drinks & chilled with a few crazy New Zealand couples. The next day I drove a scenic route up the North East coast for about 6 hours & 420km until we came to Gisborn...

Im currently in Auckland, I arrived on Monday, weather is crap today, pissing rain outside, nothing knew but its fairly humid here. Its a huge city, it just keeps going for ages, its nice though, im impressd with it, its definetly nicer tham Wellington. I went up on the Sky tower yesterday, its meant to be the biggest bulding in the southern hemisphere, the views are spectacular, plus you can stand on the see through class at the top which is always cool, like on...

I left Christchurch about 5 days ago & started travelling the South Island. The first day we spent travelling to Kaikoura, a nice little town North of Christchurch. The activity options here were seal, whale & dolphin watching or you could swim with them if you wanted. I decided not to bother to do any of those activities, didnt exactly seem great fun. Spent most of the day in the pub, met a few locals & had a good time. We headed of to Abel Tasman th...

After 4 days in Christchurch I think its time to move on so will head travelling tomorrow, but at the same I could easily stay here for another few days. Its a cool little town, easy to get around, people are friendly, its relatively cheap & importantly its got good pubs & nightlife. Sullivans Irish bar in Manchester St is a good spot, I'm not normally one for visiting Irish bars, but this one is well worth a look, they have bands playing, irish dance...