It was pouring in rain and we arranged to meet our helpx hosts in the afternoon at their house near Rolleston. We had a five hour drive ahead of us from Blenheim, we stopped at Kaikoura for some lunch and headed off again, Kam was nodding off in the passenger seat. I kept noticing that the windscreen wipers were not going as fast as they usually do. Then some lights started to flash on the dashboard. I woke up Kam and said I thought there was something wrong. We ...

We were very excited on our last day in Christchurch as we were meeting James and Laura at the airport who were jetting in from home via Melbourne. They were picking up a campervan so we got to spend a few days on the road with them. We drove down to Akaroa just an hours drive out of Christchurch where we had a great dinner of spag bol and a few beers. It rained heavily but we didn't mind as it was supposed to clear up the next day. The following day we had a w...

So we left dreamy Tekapo in the sunshine and made our way towards Christchurch. As we drove further towards the coast we could see big grey clouds looming ahead. Soon we were driving through miserable drizzly grey fog. We had read about the world famous in New Zealand Duneath custard square so we thought we ought to try one! We found a cafe in Pleasant Point (which wasn't very pleasant) and shared one, it was OK but we've had better! Next we drove towards Methven...

Now we headed towards Mt Cook, which is the tallest peak in the whole of Australasia. The drive along Lake Pukaki towards Mt Cook was stunning. You can see the snow capped peaks in the distance while to the right you have this amazing bright blue lake. We headed first to view the Tasman Glacier which involved clambering up some rocks for about 25 minutes. We were rewarded by this fantastic view over the Tasman valley, there were chunks of ice floating below us. T...

We left chilly Dunedin and made our way up the coast towards Oamaru, we stopped on the way at the Moeraki Boulders which are some rather large boulders just scattered on the beach. As we continued driving, Kam wanted to get something out of his wallet but couldn't find it anywhere. We thought maybe it was in the back of the van so we pulled over and searched and searched and couldn't find it anywhere. So then we had to phone everywhere we had been in Dunedin over...