Having slept in a camping spot once again, we woke up to find some strange bird milling around outside the Jucy van and even once managed to hop in to the passenger footwell when the door was open. Obviously I was less than pleased about this. We made some breakfast and headed slightly back the way we came to check out Pancake Rocks and blowholes (which had been pointed out to us by the policeman from Oamaru - although I thought at the time due to the Kiwi acce...

Leaving Wanaka we headed along the West Coast towards Haast and further on towards Fox Glacier. The rain was absolutely lashing down and in the end, we stopped for the night before we even reached Fox, watching a few 'Inbetweeners' episodes whilst the rain came crashing down around us. The following morning we arrived in the Fox Glacier township ready for our Glacier Hike. Unfortuantely due to the bad weather and rock fall due to the Christchurch earthquake the...

After we had recovered from our night our, we drove to Wanaka ready to ski or board at Treble Cone, but not before stopping in Cadrona for another little sleep. The following day we booked a snowboard lesson for the afternoon, hired some equipment and drove the Jucy van up the mountain to Treble Cone. Our lesson was a great success and we learnt the basics and even got the hang of using the button lift. I was expecting to fall over more, but didn't, We both rea...

On our third day we drove to penguin beach on the peninsula (not a penguin in sight) so drove back to Dunedin via the Highcliff Road to take in the stunning views across the water. Then we made our way to Queenstown ready for some adrenalin filled activities. We stopped at a cidery in Cromwell on the way, a dam at Clyde and the Kawaura bridge home of the commercial bungy jump to watch a couple of people tumble off the ledge. Then it was on to Queenstown itself....

Mina and I arrived in Christchurch following a 4.15am start. We had not booked anything so had to make a quick decision on what we were doing and decided to book a Jucy campervan for our three and a half week tour of New Zealand. We were picked up from the airport ten minutes later and were on the road in our bright green mobile home in no time at all,. We took a quick tour of Christchurch, but nothing much took our fancy so we headed South and took in some of ...