I've entered "The Big Smoke" and my last city in New Zealand. Since my last update I had a 6 hour early morning bus ride from Christchurch to Picton to get a ridicously slow ferry journey from the South Island to Wellington in the North Island. Its not a massive place but its a nice city and a welcome relief from small towns in the middle of knowhere. I didn't do too much here but just relaxed and prepared myself for South America, which was only a week...

What a crazy few weeks its been. To make it easier to write, I'm just gonna summarise it. 26th-28th June - Christchurch. I arrived and met up with Rach and Sandra. Met a few other lads who are doing the same trip on the same day and so just hung around for those first few days. All it did was rain and so we never really got to experience Christchurch much at all. Pretty place from what I could see but it never stopped raining. 29th June - 2nd July. Made our way...