8/1-09 Buenos Aires! I arrived quite tired in Buenos Aires (BA) 3. January, and was very happy that Maria would be waiting for me at the airport:) It just took us an hour or so to find each other, apparently Ezezia airport has more than one terminal and more than one meeting point! Jaja... Got to our hostel in Palermo (Tango Backpackers), and went out for some dinner before meeting up with Elisabeth at our hostel again. Elisabeth has been to BA several times ...

2/1-09 Santiago, Chile!!! I arrived in Santiago from Auckland 1. January, actually before I left Auckland....haha! Yeah the time and the dateline is somewhere in between, so I got to experience 2 days of 1. January. And its not excactly the day you want to experiece too many times, everything is closed, everyone is hungover etc....And I also had a pretty hard time leaving Severin back in Auckland, his plane to LA was 2 hours later than mine, so we had the clas...

Happy new year from Auckland!!! Arrived in Auckland 30. December after some fantastic days in Raglan. Just after writing the last blog entry in Thames we picked up a newspaper and saw that the weather for northland was gonna be s***ty. So we decided to go southwest and see some areas that we had not seen yet, and it was a very good decision. Arrived in Raglan in the evening, and spent a very chilly evening at the hotel having some drinks in the sunset. Raglan is...

Update from the North Island! Here follows an update on what we've been doing so far on the north island:) Wellington-Otaki: Took the Picton-Wellington ferry on Saturday 20. December in pouring rain. Took a travel sickness pill, and read afterwards that you should not drive a car after doing so....hehe! So instead of just continuing driving north from Wellington we had a short stop and went to the cinema to see Madagaskar 2....funny!!! In the evening we braved ...

19/12-08 The last days on the south Island! Queenstown-Mt.Cook: It was with a heavy heart that we left Queenstown on Wednesday- we both really enjoyed ourselves there with the incredible beautiful scenery and tranquil atmosphere. After leaving Queenstown we started to head north towards Mt. Cook, and arrived in the late afternoon. Before setting up camp for the evening we drove into the Tasman Valley, and walked for 30 minutes to reach the lookout point for the...