It is really hard to get up when there are icicles on the window and you don't have a heater, so we didn't start moving until later than expected. We were supposed to be going to Mount Cook but if we had left for that 4 hour drive, we wouldn't have had too much time to do anything. That's the trouble with coming in winter, not only is it freezing, you don't get many daylight hours. Instead, we decided to stay in Queenstown for the night, where we could meet up wi...

We freedom camped just outside Te Anau, so drove into the town in the morning to figure out our next move. We had planned to go to Doubtful Sounds but after asking at the information centre we discovered that you had to book a tour to go there as you had to get two ferries and a coach. Instead, we drove up to Milford Sounds, driving along one of the most scenic roads in the country (according to the Lonely Planet). We stopped off at some 'mirror lakes' and then w...

We had freedom camped the night before, I'm getting used to sleeping in lay-bys now and arrived in Queenstown early in the morning. The holiday park we were in was a complete rip off, already charging us $40 to park a car (it would be more but one of us hides each time) we had to pay $2 for an 8 minute shower! It could at least not be timed if we're paying for it! Queenstown is beautiful, surrounded by mountains with a lake in the centre. This is the place I wan...

The drive through the Otago Peninsula is really nice, the place is full of lakes, sea and hills. We drove over to 'New Zealand's only castle' but didn't fancy paying the entrance fee to get in, especially as we couldn't see the castle from the entry gates, so turned around. There are a load of wildlife places on the peninsula and we drove to the furthest point where the albatross centre is, but again didn't fancy paying to get in. We parked up there to have lunch...

Dunedin After our first night of freedom camping, we continued our drive down to Dunedin. We stayed in a holiday park so that we could shower and plug in for the rest of the day (some of our stuff like the kettle and heater will only work when we're plugged in). We started walking into the town but it was a bit far from the holiday park, so after a quick stop at the pub we got a bus. Our day was spent checking out a few of the pubs in the city and walking aroun...