After a 24 hour stop in Wanaka we are now heading for 5 nights in Queenstown. We arrived yesterday afternoon from Franz Joseph and with not much planned we headed to a grass area for a game of football. Walking over to the pitch we looked around and the views were incredible. Surrounded by the most beautiful mountains we have seen so far just made the game of football even better. Some people mentioned it possibly being the best place to have a kick around in the...

We have spent two days in Franz Josef and the have been really enjoyable. We left the Poo Pub on Thursday morning feeling quite rough. First stop of the day was at Pukekura for the Bushman Centre. Here we heard about the history of helicopter deer recovery and watched a DVD. Not amazing but quite interesting. Eventually we arrived at Franz Josef and Steve, Dan, Pete, and Bav went off to skydive. A nice relaxing afternoon for me included an hour on the internet ...

Last night we stopped at a place called Lake Mahinapua. There is nothing there other than the place you stay called the Poo Pub. It was a fancy dress night at the pub and it was really good fun. When we arrived everyone except for myself and a guy called John headed down to the lake to chill. We decided to hang at the hostel and make our outfits. The theme for the night was either something that starts with the same letter as your first name or bad taste. John an...

Yesterday we arrived at Westport and the first thing we did was jet-boating. This included being driven up and down a river in a twelve seater boat and the driver doing loads of spins. It was great fun and our first adrenalin activity we did in New Zealand. It was apparently the fastest boat in NZ. After this we headed to our hostel where we met up with everyone else. We had dinner, a few drinks and headed to the local pub. We had a pool tournament but that did...

Westport is our destination for today. We arrived at Nelson yesterday about 3.30 but not until we had picked up about 35 people for our bus. We then stopped off on the way at a winery and went for a quick wine tasting followed by a shot tasting session. Back on the bus and through to Nelson we went. Arrived and headed down to the park for 6 a side game of football. Lost 7-6 but I did score 2!!!!! It's my dangerous pace. Pete was s***. In the evening we took par...