Time to update again as we haven't since Nelson. Our Kiwi Experience experience is pretty much at an end now having taken the bus all the way down to the bottom of the south island and up to Christchurch. Though we have a pass that can take us back up North we realised it'll be far cheaper to stay a bit longer down here and then fly up to Auckland to do the Bay of Islands just before we fly to Fiji. So leaving Nelson we joined our new bus and bus mates for t...

Soooo..the flight over with Quantas was fine and we eventually got the shuttle bus over to the Base hostel in the centre of town, which we had got a deal at. Having landed at midnight we eventually were in the double room we'd treated ourselves too by 130am and went straight to bed. Our 5 days in Auckland was very relaxed, allowing ourselves to sleep in after late nights in Sydney and we explored the city the best we could given the limited amount of things to do...

A quick update on the past couple of weeks for you all, despite many of you having heard much over the phone etc. Our time in Brisbane over Christmas was really good with lots of creative cooking on our behalf! Having Craig and Gosia's house was awesome to enjoy having a chilled out base for the festive period. We held our own Wigilia on Christmas Eve with garlic prawns and fillets of Oreo Dory fish for the meal. We were then joined by Brad, a friend of ours fro...

So Canberra was great in the end with Katie-Jayne being a superb and very generous host. Both Katie-Jayne and Emma even stayed up to drop us for our 1155pm Greyhound so that we didn't have to sit in the station for hours. The journey was typically long and we were both pretty tired when we got to Melbourne at 8am. Hel had made sure our hostel was easy to get to and we walked out of the station straight over to the hostel in less than 5 minutes. It was too early t...

A while since the last update as we've been very busy and without too much internet time to do the blog. So two weekends ago we headed to Noosa with Craig and Gosia. Having successfully dropped Benjy to the pet motel and picked Craig up after work we were onto the motorway and straight into heavy traffic which added a considerable time to the journey! But Krispy Kreme's all round helped the mood and eventually we were checked into the Costa Nova apartments on Sun...