Hi everyone. I've been quite busy since my last post when I arrived in Sydney!. On the first day we were in town our hostel, Wake Up!, put on a free city walk. We took in quite a lot of the key sites, including Paddy's Market, the indoor arena, Chinese Gardens, Darling Harbour, Queen Victoria Building and Circular Quay (which is home to the Opera House and Harbour Bridge). The weather was pretty sunny so after we'd had a walk around the Botanical Gardens, me and ...

(If you are reading this then you have probably missed my last post on New Zealand as I added it about 5 minutes ago - probably best to read that first!) I left Auckland and arrived in Melbourne at about 8.30pm. I didn't really have a clue where my hostel was or what the transport was like, so I ended up taking a tram and then wandering around St Kilda for 2 hours before finally finding it! So I was knackered and went straight to bed. Unfortunately the girl in t...

Sorry for it being quite a long time since I last did a blog, it's been a busy few weeks! I'm in Sydney for the next few days so have uploaded all my pictures and updating the blog. I'll try cover all the main things I have done since my last one (about 4 weeks ago!) The final night in Taupo was good fun. An Irish girl we had met was 25 so we all dressed as pirates and went for a night out, getting a few strange looks along the way! We also bumped into some fami...

I left Steve and Tom in Queenstown as they have an extra 10 days (because they are not going to Perth), so I was about to do a couple of weeks of solo travelling. We'd made quite a few friends in Queenstown so it was a shame to be leaving, but I wanted to make sure I got to see everything I wanted to on the North Island. So I left Queenstown and spent most of the day going to Christchurch. When I was in Christchurch I bumped into a couple of people I knew from ...

On Tuesday I didn't do very much, just relaxed and had a walk around Queenstown. There are loads of trendy cafes/bars/restaurants here and some good views across the lake. Walking down the street you often see people paragliding down the mountain side. It's much smaller than what I expected but seems like a nice place to spend a few days. We have a couple of drinks on Tuesday night in Altitude Wednesday was the day of the bungy jump! The company we did the ju...