I wanted to drive up to Cape Reinga, the furthest Northerly point of New Zealand, it is also the point at which the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean meet, so lots of cool tidal patterns, whirl pools and other weird stuff. I drove as far North as we could on sealed roads in the worst torrential rain I have ever seen, we were traversing the coastal road and the stormy winds were definitely not helping the driving conditions. There were lots of small towns enroute...

Once we had picked up the camper we stocked up with essentials at the Pak 'n' Save.We cooked dinner in the car park and then started an epic drive from Auckland to The Bay of Islands.The night drive was a bit of a mission, lots of winding country roads, Niall was whacked so I did the whole drive, whilst having the displeasure of listening to his ipod, which was clearly broken as it wasn't actually playing any music. We got as far as we could and decided to stay ...

Auckland 26 June After a really s***ty nights sleep on the metal chairs in Melbourne Airport, I was glad to get on the plane.Despite the Arctic temperatures I managed to sleep for the whole flight briefly waking to devour the rubbery eggs and soggy bacon which Quantas call an English breakfast, the rest of the world think so highly of our culinary skills. It was a really bright, cold crisp morning as I stepped out of Auckland airport and headed for the shuttle ...

After exhausting everything that Melbourne had to offer (there is only so much time you can spend in little coffee houses), I decided that to hire a car and drive the Great Ocean before I flew out to New Zealand. I hired a little Hyundai Getz, but the kind lady at Thrifty upgraded me to a Mondeo and when I picked the car up I got upgraded again to big 4.5L V6 Ford Falcon.As big muscle cars go, it was crap but as you would expect I ragged the nuts off it and had ...

So yet again I am behind with the blog and I am looking back through my notes thinking b***** I should have written the name of that town down and if I'm honest the dates are all going to be guestimated because I can't remember those either. I drove down in to Sydney, the main motorway takes you across the Sydney Harbor Bridge which was pretty cool, scrub that it was fantastic!So much so that I decide to drive across it another two times, I would love to say tha...