NELSON We arrived in nelson on thursday to this really nice hostel, probably the nicest hostel we ve stayed in. Not only do we have an ensuite bathroom to our dorm room but the also have a really nice bar with guiness on tap. Me and slates had our first pint of guiness from the tap and soon as 6 o clock hit! We had a nice chilled eve on thrusday jsut watching a few films as we had to be up early for a day trip to the abel tasman national park. We woke up early o...

RIVER VALLEY We arrived in river valley on tuesday which just happened to be St. Patricks day another excuse for a guiness or two!! River Valley was awesome although it is the middle of nowhere, no town, village, not even a shop!! It was just a hostel on the really beautiful river with high mountain sides each side. The weather was awesome when we arrived after the 5 hour coach journey so we thought it would be fun to go for a swim. So we chcuked some trunks on ...

SECOND HALF OF TAUPO After all the excitment and rush after the skydive the next few days were slightly more chilled involving a few games of crazy golf, the hole in one challenge, a chilled day at a geo thermal spa (which was free and pretty awesome), some touch rugby and a few beers. Weall decided to stay up on sunday night (NZ time) to watch england france. Slates and guy were being a bit boring and decided that they were going to sleep before the rugby then...

Wed 11th March - Waitomo/Taupo After having a nice chilled evening in waitomo, which is a small little place with a nice hostel. We headed off to taupo stopping on the way to do black water rafting. Black water rafting was pretty awesome we spent about 3 hours 65m underground in these small little caves with a wesuit, a rubber ring and a head torch. Was very cool down there, with all the stalecmites and glow worms hanging down from the ceiling, the water though ...

Saturday 7th March - Auckland Had one last day in auckland after coming back from the bay of islands. We luckily happened to be in auckland on a saturday which is auckland blues rugby day. We picked up some cheap tickets off the internet and headed down for a lads day at the rugby. Me and guy dressed up in what the others felt was a rather gay outfit but i thought was pretty funny. A mixture of crazy rugby shorts, beaters, cowboy hats and sweat bands! Anyways we...