The community - Gricklegrass We had a lie in then got up & packed. Made sure we had enough time to have breakfaast sat at the table then were back on the road. Driving back along to coast was such a nice start to the day. We stopped on the side of the road to have lunch, drove past a kid who was hitch hiking. We were running low on petrol too but had to keep on driving until we got somewhere to fill up. I fell tired so got Grant to take over driving. Grant...

Franz Josef - Glacier Walk! We were on the road for quite some time, stopped at Westport. We were in a little area called Cape Foulwind where we walked up to a lighthouse! Then went to the seal collony which was so cool. There were hundreds of them just lounging around on the rocks, some of the pups were play fighting, waddling to get to the sea to swim. I could have stayed there for hours but we knew we had to get moving. Driving down the West Coast was one o...

The South Island/Julie & AllistersWe had rain all the way down to Wellington & were on a tight schedule to check in for the ferry by 1pm. We made a stop as I needed the loo & we needed cash. I made one wrong turn but made it to the harbour in plenty of time. We qued up & we waited for what seemed like forever! After about 20 minutes a man came up to all the cars & was warning people that the ferry ride was going to be a rough one & told us...

Fiona & Jerrys/New Plymouth We're on the road from Te Kuiti to New Plymouth - we had applied for jobs in the area but the woman double booked us in so she asked around her friends if they knew anyone we could stay with, that's how we got to stay with Fiona & her family. Fiona had never done anything like this before so asked her friend what we had to do. She'd explained we'd do a couple of hours work a day in return for a room and meals. Fiona then made ...

Back to Alans/Cheryl & Digs' Two minutes down the road Grant reminds me about going to see the Alpackers that the elderly couple had invited us to see. We parked outside their house and walked down to their drive, the dog barking made the couple come out to greet us. They called the Alpackers to come up to us and they gave us a tub full of food to feed them. There were roughly 15 of them plus baby ones, they were fascinating. There were a couple that had dre...