Ever since we had left the UK, Nims and I had been more backpacking imposters then real travellers, in Beijing we stayed in a four star hotel, in Sydney City within Rakhee's Luxurious apartment, in Bondi a twin shared room, while in Christchurch. It was only in Queenstown where we felt the pinch on our wallet did you decide to slum it and stay in a dorm room with strangers. We got a four bed shared room and the first night it was just us. This was our first exp...

SUN-FACE BURN WATCH Stage 1 - Face turned redStage 2 - Face turned blackStage 3 - Face started to peel like a rubber maskStage 4 - normal face returning, just in need of some Vitamin E (current stage) We left Christchurch on a Thursday morning and boarded our bus bound for Franz Josef. The journey in total lasted about 6-7 hours as we drove through this varying and amazing country. We left the city in rain, struggled up the mountains with snow falling, crept t...

Our instructions on entry to Sydney was to meet my cousin, Rakhee at a bar in Central Sydney where she would meet us. We arrived to the bar quite quickly and decided to enjoy a quick drink even though it was lunch time. The locals were all dressed up with big hats and suits as it was Melboure Cup day and everyone had taken the afternoon off to drink, watch the race and place a little bet on the horses. The bar was lively and we met a couple of locals and one dr...

After the sunburning episode of Bondi Beach I was glad to be in a country that was quite cool, although it is really sunny. We found accomodation straight away and organised our trip around the south of the island with an excursion company. We initially planned to leave within a couple of days of landing in Christchurch but because we wanted to stay out of the sun we stayed a couple of days extra in Christchurch. I wisely invested in all sun care products in al...