Well I was bound to miss something out writing so far back! I missed out Timaru on the coast on the way up to Christchurch! We stopped here to see the Blue Penguin Colony. We were told we could see them here for free if we went a little way up from the Sanctuary. We couldn't see them but we did find a beach that had rare yellow eyed penguins. They didn't come out umtil around 4pm so we wealked down onto the beach & Charlie was startled by a loud grunting ...

We stopped off in Christchurch to break up the driving & to go into STA Travel to sort out our flights. We had a look around the town centre and in the afternoon we went to teh Antartic Centre. It's the place where people from all over the world go to travel on to Antartica. They had a antartic experience where you go into a room that has wind speeds of 30mph & -18 degree temperatures. It was VERY cold!! They also had blue penguins, which are tiny an...

A road trip up to Arrowtown, which is an old Gold Mining town. Unfortunately, we didn't find any gold in the river! It was like an old cowboy town, the buildings were pretty cool. Then we went on to Lake Wanaka. We watched a film in a crazy cinema which was like someones front room. There were sofas & pillows at the back you can lie down on & there was even an old Morris Minor in there, because most people have one of those in their front room!

The first part of our road trip in our camper (converted people carrier which barely fitted us both in the back!) took us to Milford Sound. It was quite eerie as it was a wet morning. There were loads of waterfalls and a giant lake with low hanging clouds, to get the real experience you need to do a boat trip around the fijords but we had alot of road to travel that day so just had a drive around. You can see the huge glaciers at the tops of the mountains, I d...

After being dropped off by a taxi in Queenstown at a hostel we found in our Lonely Planet, we were told it was full so had to hike back up the road to a different hostel that only had a room for one night so we dropped our stuff off there & hiked back down to the previous hostel to book up a room there for the few nights after that. We didn't venture very far from our hostel & had dinner at an italian restaurant close to us, it was really expensive but we...