It is amazing how two islands so close, and part of the same country can be so different! We have decided that the South Island is the winter playground with mountains and hills, but the North Island would definitely be better in summer. The weather has been a bit more cooperative up here, sunnier days but still cool. We spent a night in Auckland after flying up from the south, but decided to get out of the city and see what the area had to offer. We got (ano...

Well, we gave in and bought coats. Its been a long week since we left Christchurch in our big new motorhome, but a suprisingly enjoyable time everywhere we went. I don't think that either of us new what to expect in southern New Zealand, but what we saw was definitely not that! We started our first day with a drive to Mt Cook, passing goregously blue Lakes Tekapo and Pukaki on the way. Beacause of the glacial and snow run off that the lakes are fed wi...

Ba ba black sheep We packed up our belonging - which are growing by the day- and headed to the airport. We got there on time, checked in and made changes to our remaining legs in record time, which was a nice change as i don't think either of us were feeling in the mood to stand in lines all morning. Our plane left on time and we headed off south away from the heat of Australia towards a cold front in New Zealand. We arrived on time, got all our bags a...