16 flights, 7 flatmates, 4 jobs, 2 caravans and 1 tropical virus later... I'm back in the UK and its raining! I have just spent the week with my family in Mallorca and its offical, its over! My travelling days are behind me (for now) and I have to thrust myself back into the real world. It's all very surreal being back and the first few hours did involve a lot of inward giggling at peoples accents. I'm just not used to hearing everyone sounding like their on an ...

Arrived in LAX!!!! We've been here a week now and it's been crazy. Los Angeles is officially the most insane place I have ever been to. Johno and I have been pretty ill with our bug from Fiji so haven't managed to fit too much in and even missed seeing Dr Phil after we managed to acquire some tickets! Booo! However, we still managed to see a lot of LA and by far my favourite place was Santa Monica. Santa Monica beach was so long and huge and the pier was pretty...

Wow fiji is hot hot hot! We landed in Nadi and went to the Nadi Bay hotel, it was pretty quiet so we entertained ourselves witha few cocktails before going to sleep (then we found bedbugs booo!!) Next day we were off to our first island, We were going to stay on Beachcomber island for the next two nights. It was immense. The water was about 27degrees! but of course the sun was hotter on the white sand and i soon got a lovely red tan. oops! oh well it went down...

And todays the day we finally get to go to the chocolate shop! Dunedin is a random place with not much to do, but we found the best they had to offer in Cadbury World with stacks of crunchies. We searched high and low for oompah loompahs but only found a slightly odd looking man in purple dungarees that was going to be our tour guide. He took us around the factory, random boring bits of machinery, but made us all happy by randomly giving us chocolate now and th...

Yesterday we were on the bus all day travelling from Franz Josef to Queenstown stopping at Lake Matheson for photos. We even stopped at the Kawarau bungy bridge to watch some of the bus jump. Queenstown is so much prettier than I was expecting. It's like a little european alpine village and our hostel is right on Lake Waka-tipu. Today I worked up the courage to jump off the 3rd highest bungy in the world. The Nevis highwire bungy. Everyone seemed to think i wa...