It was a long, long journey toQueenstown, but finally arriving at our hostel we dumped out bags an set off into town to get a famous Fergburger! They were massive, and really tasty with aioli spread and tomato relish in them. We just chilled out at the hostel after that and chatted to Candice from Canada, who gave us advice for our ski lessons the following day! On Saturday we were up at8am to get the shuttle bus to the ski slopes, but it was late, and then it...

Our journey here was our first one on the Magic bus, and unfortunately the journeys all involve various stops along the way at little villages, lakes, waterfalls etc. But eventually we arrived in the tiny town of Franz Josef, which only exists thanks to the glacier, about lunchtime. We watched Van Helsing in the afternoon and looked around the town (which took all of three minutes), and had a quiet evening in as Nat had developed a bad cold. Unfortunately when...

So after 3 hours on the plane Nush and I arrived in Christchurch, which was not too cold actually, like normal winter weather for England, but we noticed immediately how clean and crisp the air was! We checked into a hostel near the centre, and headed into the town todo a food shop, before going back to the hostel and watching 'Wedding Crashers' while we had dinner. At about midnight, Nat arrived too, as our flight had been booked up when she booked her flights, ...

The bus arrived in Sydney at about 9.30am, where Maggie (my mum's friend who moved to Sydney with her family 8 years ago, aka my friend Heather's mum) was waiting to meet us.Unfortunately her car battery had just died, but we didn't have to wait long to have it sorted out and went back to their lovely house in Balmain where we unpacked our things and collapsed on the sofa with a nice cup of tea! Later on Maggie took us for a delicious Vietnamese lunch down the ro...

We arrived at Byron Bay quite late, so just nipped to the shops to get some milk (Nat and i couldn't actually survive without it) and then relaxed at the YHA hostel.The next morning we were up fairly early to make the most of our day there, and wandered around the shops before making our way across the lovely beach to the walking track that led up to the lighthouse. It was a really steep track, and it was possibly the hottest day we'd had in Australia! But even b...