After a lazy day, lounging about at Sue and Roy's, we hit the road and stopped at Ohakune for fish, chips and a battered mars bar. While we were queuing we noticed that there were a few campervans in a car park and after a couple of enquiries decided to stay the night there. The All Blacks were playing South Africa so all of the pubs were packed, but the game had just finished when we got there and everyone had gone. After a quick pint, we retired to the van and ...

The ferry across to the North island was really nice, albeit ridiculously overpriced. We got some lunch on board (it's so hard not to be bourgeous when you half the price of everything to get what it's actually costing) and napped in the "reclining lounge". Four hours later we were in Wellington. It was straight into the van and to Lower Hutt, where Sue and Roy live. I'd contacted them earlier and they'd agreed to let us stay with them, the original plan was for...

We spent a day in Greymouth, just wandering about the town. We finally bought a cable so that we can play the iPod through our van rather than have a crackly radio and hear the same few songs over and over again. I'm finding that radio in New Zealand mainly consists of UK pop circa 2005. Once again, we spent a good portion of our day in the supermarket and then headed off north towards Picton. We had a full day left before having to catch the ferry, this was sup...

Saturday was a driving day, getting up from Wanaka to the township of the Fox glacier. The night before we'd tried to go to the cinema (I've still not seen Harry Potter!) but we'd missed the last showing- it's supposed to be an awesome cinema with sofas and cars instead of usual seats. We spent the morning mooching around Wanaka and once again spent too much time and money in the supermarket. The journey up was quite good, stopping at a couple of places on the wa...

We left Queenstown in the morning and drove up to Aoraki, stopping at a lookout on the way to have some lunch. When we got there we found that there was only one walk that we could do because of all the snow. It was supposed to be an hour each way to Kea Point but because the snow was so deep there wasn't really a path, most people had just walked the quickest route so it only took 40 minutes. We were basically walking through a mountain range covered in snow, it...