Oh. My. God. Well... Today we spend the morning driving to Franz Joseph where on the way we stopped to check out a greenstone factory (special mauri stone) and some gold mining in Ross. We also tasted... POSSUM PIE! I know its sounds awful but I have to admit it was actually quite tasty! It was from the only cafe in the world whih has a license to sell them! Anyway down to the most important bit... we arrived in Franz Joseph at about 12ish in time for - THE GLACI...

Hey dudes, today we cruised on down to Greymouth - a pretty grey town as it was pouring with rain. Our hostel was cool; "Noah's Ark", with each room themed, I was in the monkey room! In the evening we went to Montieths Brewery, had a tour and tasted lots of beer. Then we had a BBQ in which the guys tried to beat the record of 26 sausages eaten - Tom got to 16!! Pretty good going, huh?! We hung around and had a few drinks etc... before heading back to the hostel f...

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...