By 8am on Friday morning (now 26th July) James, Mat and I were on our way to Kinlock to drop our luggage at the Lodge and start the 4 day trek. James kindly offered to take us - it took much longer than expected to get there though, as we thought Kinlock was a 5 minute drive from Glenorchy but it ended up taking 2 hours to get there! We said farewell to James who dropped us off at the start of the Caples Track and went on our way... The track was full of sup...

A week has flown by...how has it been a week already its crazy! So the Cinema was great - I went to see The Gatsby and had a yummy warm ginger and white chocolate cookie as recommended by a kiwi lady who was a regular at the cinema. I headed back to the hostel and chilled for the rest of the night and made some nice Cottage Pie! Tuesday morning I decided to jog up Mount Iron...don't ask me why, I did nearly die, especially when I guy ran past me I killed my...

Thursday 18th July 8.30am I jumped in James' van (true Manchester adventure lad who is joining the army soon!) and off we went to Haas. It was a horrible rainy day so a good day for travelling, although the scenery was meant to be amazing through Haas, but never mind, there's not much one can do about that! We arrived in Haas - there is nothing there so stopped for lunch and moved swiftly on to Wanaka. As we went south the weather seemed to improve and we c...

Oh dear, so it's now the 22nd of July and I have had to put a hold on my travels to catch up with blogging...you get completely swept away with this travelling malarkey. It's incredible, you are constantly having fun, meeting new people, exploring places...always on the move, always something new, every minute of every day and I absolutely LOVE IT! So anyway, here I am, I have just said goodbye to my fellow travel buddies, James Bond (sorry Brown) and Mat Tram...

Sunday was a day of relaxing, sleeping and planning the next adventure...Abel Tasmin! After food shopping in Pack n' Save (the cheapest supermarket you can find over here), we drove North West up to Abel Tasmin. I stopped in the town just before Abel Tasmin National Park, called Motueka and checked into another cosy hostel called The Laughing Kiwi Backpackers. It's so quiet here, only one house open and only 2 dorm rooms are being used so really quiet and re...