So... after an uneventful ferry journey where we saw no dolphins and we both caught up on our sleep we arrived on the South Island! We headed to Picton where we were spending the night to find that there was not a lot going - another tiny town! We had bit of an issue with our bus out of Picton- one of us was leaving the next day, the other couldn't fit! oops! After sorting this out we headed to the bar and got a drink since our room was not big enough to s...

From Mercury bay we headed on to Rotorua but not before a nice walk over a couple of wobbly swing bridges and through a pitch black old railway tunnel where every step was one closer to a broken leg! Finally we did arrive in Rotorua - Sulphur land - where there is a constant smell of rotten eggs and if you sit on the wrong patch of land you find yourself atop a jet of sulphurous gas being sent air bound! After checking into the hostel we went for a walk through ...

Finally we return to the hostel and Vinnie the hostel manager, to check into our room that we had very sensibly booked the day before. But... Vinnie had made a mistake and our booking was nowhere to be found - now, with the hostel being full up there were many apologies and talks of mattresses being added into rooms before he came to the conclusion that he would turf some boys bags off a double bed, move some furniture and have us steal the double bed! I was ...

So... we arrived into New Zealand from Spanish speaking Argentina and were most impressed to hear our first Kiwi accent. Now we had already been warned by Emma and Dayna that it was a very interesting accent but this did not prepare us for the amusement of actually hearin it first hand! After this initial fun we then had to get down to the more imprtant business of getting through customs. Now being the good honest girls that we are this should have been fine but...