Tuesday morning I was feeling much stronger and ready to move on to Christchurch. It took 10 minutes before a lovely Brazilian Courier man picked me up (whilst on duty), showed a few extra sights, taught me how to become a delivery girl and bought me a 2 scoop ice cream on the way! He made my day J He dropped me off somewhere in Christchurch and then I had to find my way to a hostel. I realised I was quite far out of the city so I jumped on the bus and heade...

Thursday 15 August I was up and ready for Stray bus at 8.40am. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that my bus driver was Splash (my driver for the North Island). It was great to see him again, we always have such great banter! It was awesome to catch up with him during the drive to Mount Cook. When we arrived, I went up one of the mountains with an aussie guy from the bus. There were lots of steps it was definitely a work-out, but I think we both encour...

Saturday morning, 10th August, Phillip and I decided to check out the famers market before we headed down south to the Catlins. It was a fairly small market but it sold a variety of foods from different vegetables (2 of which Phil bought for dinner but hadn't a clue what they were or how to cook them), cheeses, meats, bakery, wines, jams, chutneys, pancakes, porridge....the whole lot! After a good browse and several free tastings (or not as the case may be - ...

Tuesday was a day of sorting, blogging and washing. In the afternoon some of the guys invited me to join them to explore Dunedin, so we jumped in the car and took a drive and went for a walk through the trees and got lost...we chilled in the hostel that night, everyone was pretty tired! One girl called Sophie is travelling here and she managed to spend $30 over the past week! How insane is that. Oh and another girl shaved her head for $800! I met another Eng...

Monday 29th July we had manage to hitch a lift back to Glenorchy and then into Queenstown. After sorting washing, we strolled around the town and treated ourselves to a Furburger (MY FIRST FERBURGER- and to those who don't know what this is, it's simply a famous burger place that cook huge and tasty burgers and if you come to Queenstown then it is a given one must try a Furburger, even if you don't even eat burgers!) and a beer. It was heaven - I had a Venis...