The journey to Wellington began well as Laura managed to smash into the lampost pulling out the driveway of Shani's aunts...... She isn't allowed near the driver seat now. It has added some more character to our all ready blemished van however!! We met Shani's cousin Sam after a ride up the cable car to a beautiful view over Wellington. Nice City with a seaside feel about it. We basically spent the weekend on the lash, starting in Sams local on the Friday nig...

After having non stop rain for a few days the weather finally gave in to us and it's been beautiful ever since. We found a free campsite and decided to sit, chill, read a book and basically sit and top up our tans for a few days. After a few uneventful (but very relaxing!) days we moved on to Napier to meet Shani's cousin. Our laziness had obviously decided to stay around a little longer and once again we sat around enjoying the sunshine. Ben has since become add...

So we are just over a week into our trip in New Zealand and we have done so much already and seen some amazing views! We've free camped at some of the most beautiful places and met some brilliant randoms along the way!! We dug our own spa bath at a beach where the carbon dioxide bubbles up through the sand and heats the water to a temperature that burns! Needless to say we dug the best hole on the beach and others in pure jealousy wanted to sit in ours and enj...