Hello hello hello. Thank you for the messages (Mum, Tina), very very very much appreciated. Well, today we got up at the crack of dawn in Wellington to get the ferry to Picton (North to South Island). This was a three hour journey so of course called for some serious sleeping. Once at Picton we hopped on our magicbus with our new driver; crazy Lauren! We drove through hundreds and hundreds of pine trees in the forest and a couple of little villages - one where Ca...

Evening everyone. We got to Wellington about an hour ago - where it is so windy sometimes that they have wind shelters on the street!) after a few cool stops like a crazy waterfall and a massive massive canyon thingy and the mountains from lord of the rings (its actually not that bad driving the whole time as its probably the best way to see a country) and we are staying in a REALLY nice hostel, where we get free dinner and a discounted brekkie. Tonight we might ...

Hi Guys. We fly from Hong Kong to Auckland on Thurs night/Fri. Auckland wasn't that great and we decided to book the magicbus which takes you all around New Zealand in 11 days. We spend the night in our first hostel. Ahem (I take back what I said before about being a fully fledged traveller - I wasnt. NOW I AM!) Anyway, the next morning we got up at 07:45 to catch our first bus, only to realise we were standing at the bus stop at 06:45 - we'd got our alarms wrong...