And so we are back in Wanaka! It is sooo pretty here compared to Christchurch despite the cold! The hotel is on the Crown Range road about 20 minutes from Wanaka and 40 minutes from Queenstown. We had to be at The Cardrona for 8.30am the next morning and so we decided to get a cabin instead of sleeping in the van just because it would be warmer! When we arrived at the hotel the next morning we were told that they had been expecting us last night! Ooops. (Not to w...

Working in Christchurch didn’t really work out for us; I was moved to Neil’s bar which was really really quiet and drove me made because it was so boring. It was good that we were working together in the same place but it was really hard to save money living in the city, especially when we were only getting paid $12 an hour. We had met up with some Italian friends which was fun while it lasted but they couldn’t find any work in Chch and so moved to Blenheim...

Hello! We have been working in Christchurch for just over a week now and it's not all bad! We are working in seperate bars but they are owned by the same people so we know the same faces. Neil is working in a new bar called His Lordships and i am in an English bar (...???) called The Bard on Avon. It's not ideal as we wanted a job in the same place and we aren't really getting a lot of hours so we don't know how long we will stay for. I think soon we might go cr...

Well, it's a long story that'll have to wait but we are back in Christchurch. Yesterday we started new jobs!! In an English bar and restaurant, thought we would never get them but we have! Will fill in the gaps next time...... Quick catch up...We handed out heaps of cv's in Queenstown to bars, restaurants, ski resorts and even agencys but the general answer was that there wouldn't be any work in Queenstown until mid June as this is when the ski season begins. W...

We didn't do the drive from Christchurch to Queenstown in the same day, instead we stopped at Lake Pukaki. There wasn't much there other than the lake and a look out point to Mount Cook but it was late by the time we got there so we thought we'd stay and catch the sunrise in the moring. We got up early the next morning and the sunrise was awsome but unfortunately we couldn't see Aoraki from where we were parked! We hadn't realised this the night before because it...