Hi, am in Auckland, hv left my big bag at left luggage at bus station, have a couple of hours to kill before i catch a flight to Brisbane in Austrialia. Went to a family BBQ on Monday, then my cousin and I went to Rotortua and saw a geyser, some boiling mud pools and cave which had glow-worms in it. i hv archived my old messages so you should be able to leave new messages now. i will be back Wednesday morning, so less than a week. bye d

Hi, have just finished the tour. Have the afternoon in Christchurch. Not gonna write much as it seems only Mario is reading it regularly. Mario, I hope you haven't brought one of those houses with a flat roof. Who is paying the stamp duty / Why not get yourself a house under the threshold? Christchurch is nice, just like an English city but nicer. It has a cathedral which is only 100 years old, and everyone seems to think that is old. Tomorrow, I fl...

mario, well done on selling your house, give me a text and let me know how much you got for it. still in Queenstown, went for a boat ride on an old steamer, could see the engine and the poor bloke filling the ovens with coal. Just got back from a gondola ride (like a cable-car). Then took a chair-lift to the peak and go-karted back down to the gondola. Last night was thankfully fairly uneventful, I went to bed at 11pm, the other guys got back at 2am but we...

Hi, got some sleep last night, not alot but some. One of the guys came crashing into the room last night at 4am, p*ssed out of his head, shouting, unfortunately the other 2 guys encouraged him to be a prat. He was completed paranoid this morning, thinking he was in the wrong room. They sell party tablets, which are legal, guess he had taken some of them! The lodge we are staying at is completely booked, so will see when I go back later if they have managed to...

I'm getting bored of this tiger! Currently in Queenstown for 3 nights. Sunday, I just stayed at the hotel where the tour started. Shared a room with an Aussie and an American, both were nice guys but were not on my tour, but on an identical tour which runs in the opposite direction. Must admit, i'm not enjoying it, i didn't realise when I booked it that it was for 18-35 years old and is similar to the famous 18-30 holidays, people being stupid, drinking all ...