Will I ever leave!? Queenstown has an ability to catch you in it's web and make it impossible to leave ...oh go on then, one more day. (5 have since passed), but with such a charming city and a laid back (uni-esqe) nightlife I can see why people stick around. Looking back, I couldn't really tell you what I've been up to all week. With the sun shining everyday, it has been stupidly easy to waste away a day sitting by the waterfront admiring the views, people watc...

So pretty! Wanaka wasn't a compulsory stop on our trip, but a few of us wanted to see what it had to offer - plus, some guy in the spa at Franz Joseph had talked none stop about Puzzelling World with such enthusiasm, that we could hardly just let it pass. After a fairly lengthy journey down, (stopping at multiple 'photo opportunities' - all nice and worth the stop, but I have no names of any of the places, so now own hundreds of unidentifiable mountain, hill, la...

Beautiful! The town in Franz Josef is just like a little ski town (or how I imagine one to be), cept without the snow. The weather cooled down a bit here, so at last I had an excuse to look pasty white - honestly, you wouldn't believe I'd been away a month! Knee was still playing up, so used the excuse to book me a scenic helicopter ride over the glaciers. Expensive - but a lot less painful! We were picked up at 7am, where the sun was still down, as we took off ...

So, where do I start? Managed to get a little behind in updating this thing... I left Wellington on the 7th March and caught a ferry across to Picton. Far nicer than coming into Dover - the scenery as you approach the south island was so nice, made all so much better by the twinkling of the sun on the water. Lovely. Arrived in Picton and stayed at a hostel called Tombstone backpackers. Opposite the graveyard and they have a coffin shaped door at the front! My ro...

I wasn't entirely sure that I was ready to leave Taupo and head south, but at the lack of an expense account on which to put another sky dive, I thought it best to keep moving. Plus, those that I had met on the bus were travelling south - wow, I still bow to peer pressure... So what to say about Wellington? It's the capital and it's windy. Oooh, it's got a pretty good museum too. That's really all I took from it. I don't expect lonely planet will be asking me fo...