Walking through Queestown centre, every 3rd window along the main shopping street is filled with yet another impossibly inventive contraption designed to let you jump off, be dropped off or get thrown off ridiculously high things - without the usual consequences....maybe. The plaster casts around town told a different story. Queenstown is the adventure capital of New Zealand and it was with this in mind we had expected a sprawling party town. Instead, we were ni...

We aren´t sure how it started ...possibly it was the sun, maybe the hang gliding was a trigger, perhaps our minds needed a fresh supply of fun memories to get us through the likely years of sedentary desk sitting ahead of us. Either way, an itch for adrenaline had started to grow in us and with it we started to use a lot of cheesy words. Like ´Rad´. Thankfully, New Zealanders seem to take great delight in devising ways of terrifying each and every one of thei...

Where on Earth would we top the great experience we had in Fiji, we thought as our plane climbed over the rolling hills of Nadi and we saw them sink into the blue brilliance of the ocean. We meant that literally and where better to try than somewhere more people had cited as being their favourite destination to us than anywhere else. New Zealand. Conveniently, this happened to be our next stop. Arriving in North Island we spent a night in Aukland before flying...

You know that moment of realisation? The point at which you find yourself halfway up a rock face with no rope? When you start shouting at your computer before realising the whole office is watching you? The type of monumental dawning of the truth that male ballet dancers must get from time to time while wearing a leotard and doing the splits in front of 10,000 people... Well, that´s pretty much the way we felt as we stood behind the door of our 5 bed dorm room ...

As it is Christmas time Jonathan felt like he needed a well earned break from...well...actually I am not sure what from but it means that I have been coerced into updating the blog and so now it is my account of what we have been up to...if all goes well maybe there will be more from me. (Code: give me 5 stars as a rating please) So, fresh from living in swags we jumped on yet another flight, this time to Perth. During the 3 hour flight we passed over nothing, no...