I'm very annoyed because I just spent ages writing all this and I was literally on the last sentence when the internet browser closed and I lost it all. It was really long as well! Grrr! Anyway so here goes take two! I arrived pretty late in Canada at 9.30pm to be met by my brother Ben and a delicious curry. I was pretty tired from a long day of travelling so we just chatted for a while and I looked at photos from his month-long ski traverse through the Rockies ...

So I'm not actually in L.A. right now, I've already left but I haven't yet gott around to updating my blog so I'm doing it now. I arrived in Los Angeles and made my way over to my friend Sally's house. I was pretty exhausted from a 13 hour flight in from New Zealand so since I got to her house at about 9am we both went back to sleep for a few hours! It was weird because my flight left at 12.45pm and arrived at 7.30am so it was as if I went back in time! It was d...

So now I am right at the end of my time in New Zealand! I leave tomorrow.... So I'd better let everyone know what I've been getting up to until now! I left Wellington and headed up to Taupo for an overnight stop, which was my last night with my Scottish friends Jess and Neil. I went to watch them do their skydives over Lake Taupo and it brought back all the memories of me doing mine! I was really jealous and wished that I could have done it again, but I can't af...

Leaving Kaikoura we took the ferry back across the Cook Straits over to Wellington, and passing through the Marlborough Sounds Jess and I saw two dolphins! Pretty lucky! They were really cool. When I arrived in Wellington for the second time on my way back up north, I was lucky enough to stay with some lovely friends called Andy and Sarah from back home. I have known them for years since Andy is one of my older brother Ben's best friends and Sarah is his girlfri...

After a 9 hour bus drive (the longest so far by far) up to Christchurch we got out into our hostel Base Christchurch which was probably the worst hostel I'd been in so far. The Base hostels through NZ are usually pretty good, but this was an absolute maze, really confusing to find anywhere, and it was FREEZING! Thank goodness we were only staying one night. The next morning we got back onto the bus and headed up the east coast to a small township called Kaikoura...