Day 11 - TaupoDrove to Taupo this morning with another 6.30am start... Stopped to see some volcanoes (from afar!!) on the way and then on to the town. First up today was Rock n Ropes. This involved high level ropes strung between telegraph poles with me walking them.. It was all about 15metres off the ground! Very challenging for someone with a fear of heights. Successfully negotiated the most of it, then came the trapeze... Which involved climbing a vertical pol...

Day 7 - Fox GlacierA nice early start today and then a drive though the mountains towards Fox Glacier. We got really unlucky with the weather and all the helipcopter trips were cancelled :( I wanted to do the ice climbing but apparently we couldnt do it going northbound, only southbound, so the only option was a 4hr hike in the rain... Not my idea of fun and most of it was through a rainforest!! So Janette and I and sat for 5 hours in a cafe and watched DVD's and...

Day 4 - K Bridge and QueenstownDrove back along the same route we had done to Milford and visited an old gold mining town called Arrowtown on our way to K Bridge where some people were going to throw themselves off a perfectly good object and pay a ridiculous amount of money for the privilege! K Bridge is the home of bungy, bought myself a jumper and just watched the mentalists do their thing!! Then we headed to Queenstown, got settled into our lodge and made our...

Day 1 - ChristchurchEarly start this morning from Avalon, north of Sydney, 5am, caught the ferry from Manly at 6.30am and then out to the airport. I was in the queue to check in and I noticed they were weighing peoples hand luggage and charging for bags over 20kg. I hadnt weighed my bag but I only had to look at it to know that it was over lol. So I went for plan B... "My final destination is London via LA, Im just making a few stops along the way" (as ...

Byron BayDay 7 - Decided to forgoe the last day of the tour and get off the island and head to Byron with Courtney as she'd hired a car. Boy was I glad I did, it PISSED it down that day and we were meant to be doing 2 walks and a swim in a lake lol. We drove to Brisbane in the hire car/boat, then got a transfer to the bus station and got bus to Byron where we met our friends Matt and Nick. Quick shower, then back out to a tapas restaurant for food and a well dese...