Hello once again! I can't believe how rubbish I am with blogging! I'm nearly at the end of my New Zealand adventures so have a lot to catch you up on... I joined the bus in Picton and made the way to Nelson where I booked myself on a full day kyaking in the Abel Tasman. I climbed the steep, but rewarding path to the 'Centre of New Zealand' which apparently is the geographical centre and looked out over Nelson with a 360degree view. Back at the hostel I bumpe...

Hello! Blimey it's been a while! I have completed the North Island adventures and have now spent two days in the South Island, but believe I left things in Whangerei... I spent just one further night in Auckland before starting my Kiwi Experience. I tramped on to the bus feeling pretty nervous, but soon made friends with a lovely German called Carolin who instantly made me feel more like myself. The first stop on the bus was Mercury Bay in the Coramandel...

Hello one and all! Well I'm now on my tod! Eek! I won't fill you in on the last of China and Hong Kong as Dave has kindly done that already :) (Read it at www.statravelblogs.com/stereophilia) So After our teary good-bye Dave and I went on to our separate journey's, mine starting with me leaving my digital SLR at the boarding gate!!! Thankfully the flight attendant brought it to me ont he plane as my name was in there! I could have shot myself! Anyway, I ar...