Well we could not resist coming to Stoke, New Zealand, we drove for about 2.5 hours to get there and got some great photos! Its certainly very different from the Stoke we know! After we left there we went to go and catch the ferry to take us over to the north island, you have to catch a ferry with the van and it take about 3 hours to get there. We had no idea once at the other end where we were going so we just chose a road and headed up towards Auckland as w...

We arrived in Kaikaroua after a great drive along the coast, the coastal road winds all round the mountain. We went to try and find out about the whale watching but as it was late most places had shut so we decided to park up for the night we parked right next to the beach. The weather has been quite bad for a few days now rain and high winds and that night it felt like the van was going to tip over the wind howling all night and the rain was lashing down on the ...

We arrived in Franz Josef another sunny day luckily and booked staight onto the trip to walk the glacier. The Franz Josef Glacier is the steepest and fastest moving glacier in the world and the walk ensures amazing views of the terrain. The unusual combination of rain forest and the mighty river of ice in such close proximity is unique to glaciers in this region. We got kitted out with boots and spikes to enable us to walk on the ice and coats trousers etc to kee...

We arrived in Queenstown and were plesantly surprised as we expected in to be a huge big town, it is larger than some of the places that we have visited but still a small quaint place. It would be fabulous to visit there in winter covered in snow, it's really popular with skiers and all the bars are set up with great big log fires etc. Its full of adrenalin sports and there is loads of different things that you can do we were going to look at doing the tamdem bu...

We left Twizel and set off in the snow to Milford Sound! Luckily the snow cleared up and the weather beacame fine again as it too two days to drive to Milford Sounds it is right at the bottom the south island. Milford Sound is a fjiord in Fiordland National Park & World Heritage Park. It is currently judged the top travel destination in an international survey and is New Zealands most famous tourist destination, it has also been called the 8th wonder of the w...