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...

Just on the bus from Kaikoura to Nelson after a very brief stop. Arrived last night when it was dark, made some dinner, and headed to the local pub. About 10 o'clock the pub closed so back to the hostel we went, stopping at a liquor store on the way. Couple more hours chilling at the hostel and drinking a few beers before bed made it a nice chilled out evening. This morning we woke up to some amazing snowy mountains views from our hostel room. Really nice surp...

When you're in prison you'll turn the other away, keep your back against the wall, when you're in prison you'll turn the other away, do not bend at all............ So yesterday the adventure that is New Zealand began. Pete and I arrived in Christchurch about 1 yesterday afternoon and hung around the airport for a couple of hours until the others arrived on a later flight. Not much to do in the airport so we decided to make them a big banner for when they arrived...

That's a nice boulder........ Tomorrow we leave first thing in the morning to New Zealand and today has been a great way to end Australia. A day trip from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. We got a train that arrived into the nearest town of Katoomba at about midday. We grabbed a quick bite to eat and then headed to the mountains. We went straight to the Three Sisters. To be honest if I had named them I would have called them the "Three Rocks that aren't connected t...

Oz Party!! f*** Yeah!! Oz Party!! f*** Yeah!!.............. We are travelling up to the Blue Mountains for our last full day in Australia and Sydney has been a good 2 days. We arrived on Wednesday evening after a 10 hour drive from Byron Bay. Arriving in a city at 8 in the evening and what could we do? We got the goon out and got smashed up! Quick game of ring of fire and we headed to a bar. Live band until 12 and then just a normal evening really. Eventually cr...