Hi Everyone! So we've now done South Island and are back in the north spending those 10 days we were going to go to Fiji (check that spelling Dad!) driving around the north island again but this time going south of Auckland only. We really liked South Island, there's a more to look at in the way of mountains, and bars.... We headed down the west coast past the Pancake Rocks, down to Haast - met up with some of our South Aerica travelling buddies there, fe...

Saturday 23rd we arrived in Auckland from Buenos Aires. Everyone has said NZ is just like home, when we arrived it was raining so I'd say they're probably right! We stayed in Auckland one night at a hostel then took the hire car north. We stayed Sunday night on a holiday park/campsite in a place called Sandspit which was lovely. We had a cabin right on the water and took a rowing boat out the next morning with big ideas of getting out to sea but barely ma...

We arrived in Buenos Aires at 9am Saturday morning on the overnight (13hour) bus from Mendoza. Menzoda was a pretty cool place but we only had 24 hours there which was a shame. Mendoza is the main wine producing area in Argentina so needless to say we made a point of sampling the local delights! It was probably the nicest wine I've ever had, and I've tried a few. On arriving in BA we had to find accommodation which proved to be a bit of a struggle as the Ch...

Tomorrow we are heading to El Colorado in the Andees for two nights and three days of snowboarding fun! Then on Wednesday we head over to Mendoza in Argentina for a night before catching the overnight bus for 14 hours to Buenos Aires.