Day 41 - Surat Bay This is heaven and if we don't leave soon, we will not leave until April!!!!! When we arrived at this BBH Jamie (the owner) gave us the large room and kitchen away from the backpacker lodge, we still have to share the toilet and shower though but our part is great. It must be living on the road for six weeks that you turn to jelly when you arrive at something that is comfortable with a soft mattress, feather pillows, carpets, TV, heating and a...

Day 33 Queenstown - Te Anua Took a bus shuttle to Lake Te Anua, beautiful ride with a great driver and bikes loaded on a carier. Staying in a pretty good site in a chalet and have met a couple of young Canadians who are walking the tracks. Day 34 - Lake Te Anua Made some enquiries regarding trips down to Milford Sound, but expensive and a lot fully booked up. You know me and boats!!!!!!! If it were possible we would have cycled down there and had a good look ...

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Day 29/30 Lake Wanaka Got a room at the YHA today in Wanaka and spent seometime looking around the small town, what a lovely place. . . I presume that you came here Lee when you visited but that would have been in the Winter no doubt completely different now (see photos), but no doubt just as beautiful in both cases/ Plenty of good shops, some very up-market with a well stocked Supermarket which is very important as the small towns charge so much more for grocer...

Day 23 Franz Josef 10.45 a.m and sitting on the bed writing the blog and listening to the news. Staying here for another day but weather is very grey, raining with low cloud unable to see the mountains this morning, hopefully it will clear up. Went up to the Glacier this afternoon along the Glacier View Road, most people tend to go to the car park and then walk from there, but not us . . . we walked only 5k though. The Glacier looked pretty dirty apparently cove...