In case anyone has been confused by my postcards so far (all about Thailand), I wrote them all in New Zealand as I didn't get time in Thailand, so I wrote them in Christchurch and also Franz Joseph. Anyway, I can now start writing about New Zealand, and amazing that it is I haven't done as much stuff so far here in a week as I did in Thailand, but I am taking it at a much slower pace as I do have 6 weeks (only 5 now!) I met Nikki (friend from Blandford who I used...

The next day we got a bus to \'the Hellfire Pass\' which is part of the old Thailand to Burma railway built by prisoners of war and Asian labourers in the 2nd world war by order of the Japanese. It was called this because it was the hardest section of the railway to cut - they made a cutting right through this massive rock of a hill just with hammers and picks. It was horrendous to learn about the torture they endured and the weather, living conditions and diseas...

Today was amazing it rained so hard all day - we had a boat ride on a longtail speed boat through the lake at the bottom of the guest house was fantastic the whole way was beautiful scenery through rainforests and limestone cliffs and lots of random houses floating on the water. We went past a sunken temple that got flooded in metres of water whaen ages ago they built a damn here. When we got to the other end of the lake there waiting for us were 6 beautiful elep...

Hey everyone my first entry! Now I\\\' m gonna write about Thailand here even though it says New Zealand because when I set up my website I only did it for Ausralasia because I was only in Thailand for a week and by requesting just Australasia you get a much closer up view of both countries so can see where I am better - so not so blonde after all eh?!! Thailand was absolutely fantastic - getting off the plane was pretty scary as I just didn\\\'t know what ...