We dragged our sleepy arses onto the Magic Bus at about 7.45 this morning, bound for Dunedin. The route took us through Cromwell and Alexandra, arriving in the most Scottish of New Zealand's cities (Dunedin is the Celtic word for Edinburgh) at around 1pm. We've landed ourselves an AWESOME hostel here and it's just off the Octagon, the central hub of the city where you find the Town Hall, a statue of Robbie Burns, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Dunedin Public Art G...

It's a slow news day I'm afraid. We've done very little to be honest. I had a wander around the town and around the park and that's about it! However we did have tea at the legendary Fergburger (http://www.fergburger.com) where we ate burgers the size of our heads. Jim opted for Mr Big Stuff (1/2lb beef burger, bacon, cheese, bbq sauce, lettuce, red onion, tomato and aioli) whilst I plumped for the Bun Laden (falafel, lemon yoghurt and chipotle chilli sauce, lett...

It was another early start for us yesterday as we embarked upon our final daytrip of the holiday, heading down to Fiordland National Park for a cruise around the infamous Milford Sound. We left Queenstown in the drizzle and went via Te Anau, carrying on through Te Anau Downs, k*** Flat (!) and through the Homer Tunnel. That was completely mental - it's literally a hole drilled through a mountain without any kind of interior structural support, so I was half exp...

We've had a lovely day here in Queenstown. The sun was out, the scenery was beautiful and the food was delicious! I woke up earlier than Jim so wandered into town and had a look at the little arts and crafts market, going back to meet him later. Next up was a trip on the Skyline Gondola up to Bob's Peak where you could look over Queenstown from the observation deck. And then we went on The Luge. They're little go-carts that you control by pushing or pulling yo...

It's been a lazy one today, sunbathing by Lake Wanaka until it was time to get back on the bus to Queenstown this afternoon. Our new driver was an absolute twat: sexist, dead mic happy and he mistakenly thought he was a comedian. As we were driving into Queenstown he was making dodgy comments about how the mandatory ID checks they do in bars means that all the girls are "legal" and then went on to tell us that the age of consent is 16. The man was abou...