We left Kuta the next morning - supposed to be at 9am but we were asked to go at 11am instead, for what reason we're not sure, but it didn't matter to us because we weren't really in a rush! We got to Padangbai at about 3.00pm and found a nice guesthouse with an ensuite to stay at (3.50 pounds including breakfast!!). We booked the ferry/bus/ferry to go to the Gili Islands the next day. The ferry was fine (somewhat iffy, looked like it could use a lick of pain...

We spent a couple of nights in Auckland with Helen and James, had a few (ok, a lot!) of drinks over the weekend. On the Sunday we visited Waihiki Island just off the coast of Auckland. On Monday we got up early to get to the airport for our flight(s) to Bali. The first flight was Auckland to Sydney, which took about 3 hours. We only had one hour to transfer to the next flight, it was a bit short on time, but they got us a bus to the next flight and while we w...

Hello! We are in Christchurch now, been here for a week now. We had a nice time in Dunedin, went out to the Otago Peninsula (even though the weather was terrible!) and went to Sandfly Beach (where there were actually no sandflies, thank god!) and we saw some sealions. You don't really see them till the last minute, they are disguised on the beach, but they are huge!! Obviously Jack wanted to get some close up looks at them, so he had a few moments where one o...

A bit disappointing.... but they had run out of possum pie at the bushman's cafe!! Jack ended up having a 'bambi burger' (just venison i guess!!) and i had a wild venison pie which was delicious! There were some wild deer in the garden there aswell. We drove to Franz Josef and arrived at about 3.30pm. We booked our trip to go up the glacier and chose the half day cos it was a bit cheaper, but we still got 5 hours so it was good. That night, we went out with ...

So having been in Wellington for a week waiting for our passports to come back (we have our india visa's now, woohoooooo!) we eventually made it to the South Island on Monday! We were going to go on Sunday but the ferry wasn't running even thought they said that it would be! We got the ferry on Monday at 8am, and arrived in Picton at 11am. We drove straight to Nelson and stayed in the coolest hostel ever! They did free hot chocolate cake and ice cream every n...