I'm back in Christchurch now which means my journey around New Zealand has gone full circle, I've spent a whole month on the road traveling from hostel to hostel and I can't quite believe that I'll be going to South America next week. Where has the time gone? It's been a while since I last blogged so I've got to tell you all what I've been up to in the South Island. It all started with Steve and I having a sad goodbye at Picton ferry terminal where we went our ...

Right, time for a mammoth blog about my adventures in the North Island of NZ! We have been traveling on the Magic bus like mad and since I last blogged we've been to...(deep breath)...Wellington, Napier, Mount Maunganui, Auckland, Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Whitianga, Waitomo, Rotorua, Taupo and then back to Wellington again. What a lot places in not a lot of time! So what have we done? Well... Napier was our first real stop in the North Island but we did hav...

Kia Ora! That's hello in Maori if you didn't already know! As you can see we're becoming fully versed in the ways of the Kiwis now as we've been here for over a week. Steve and I have had a great time in Christchurch catching up with Alison and Lindsay and we have to thank them lots for for showing us all the sights amongst other things. They were even able to fix the weather for us as it has been sunny, sunny, sunny ever since our plane touched down - what a res...

Here are all my Sydney stories for you to enjoy this week. Hopped on a plane from Melbourne straight to Sydney, it was such a short flight that there was hardly any time for us to eat our free sandwich and drink before the plane was back down again. Steve and I got the airport shuttle to our hotel and found out that we were far too scruffy and shabby to be staying there! We stayed at a Swishotel right in the centre of the city which was very very very posh. But ...

So we had 3 days in Melbourne and here's the lowdown on what we got up to while we were there... Day unoTook a stroll down to the Melbourne Aquarium where we found out that they had just acquired some new additions - some penguins! So first of all we said hello to the little penguins and the king penguins, they were so brilliant to watch, total characters each and every one of them! Then we went off in search of some other creatures of the deep and came up close...