Currently hanging out in Queenstown and thought I would update before I move on to Austrailia! 20th Feb 2011 Rotorua Got on the Bus and met the people on my tour - they all seem very nice! A variety of nationalalites but mainly British, Austrailian and German. Went through the town of Hobbit - which is apparently where they filmed some of Lord of the Rings and therefore the small town decided to change its name to 'Hobbiton' and then we went to stay on the Mara...

Sunday 20th Feb 10.30am Auckland Feeling pretty tired now. Yesterday I got up early to to Piha beach which is really beautiful. It may have black sand but it has really pretty green hills surrounding it. There was some thundercat (boat) racing in the sea which was pretty cool. The Sea was pretty calm but usually the boats are racing each other and also battling with 6ft waves - Really awesome Dude! Sweet As! (Just a few Kiwi expressions I have picked up!) In th...

Friday 18th Feb Auckland 6pm Really exhausted but had a great day! This morning I went on a day trip around Auckland, which involved seeing the sky tower with fantastic views of the city, a pub lunch, Auckland Harbour and most importantly the bridge walk where some people were bungie jumping - I only watched though! Now I am off to meet a couple of people that I met on the tour for a drink down the road. Just a short one today, running out of internet credits!!

Wednesday 16th Feb 5.30pm Auckland Have just arrived at the hostel after what feels days of travelling! Everybody always wants to know about the weather so I'll say that is warm but not sunny. Feels a lot different to England at the moment! Anyway so I got put on an earlier flight on Monday night, so I had to rush through customs to make sure I actually got on! This did not mean however that they did not have time to ask if I was actually over the age of 16 bef...

January 29th: So having spent the first half of the week in bed, sick due to the FH virus (Full House Virus) and the other half in bed recovering from wisdom teeth removal, I can conclude I am pretty miserable and most importantly BORED! So I thought, perfect time to start my travel blog. Hopefully I'll be able to record much more interesting and exciting events as I travel down through New Zeland and up the Austrailian East Coast. 27 hour flight from Heathro...