Lake Tekapo - Christchurch Another really mature way of passing the time on the coach is to take the most horrible sleeping photos of each other. Today Matt gained revenge on Emma with a little help from Hes. Basically wait till someone on the bus falls asleep and notify the surrounding people to get a selfie with the sleeping beauty as the centre piece. Extra points are rewarded for mouth open, drool and the amount of people participating. The road condit...

Queenstown to Lake Tekapo Today we had some big goodbyes to say to Holly, Daisy & Maddy as they were leaving the Kiwi Ex to stay a little longer in Queenstown. However after 30 minutes we were back, sat in the hostels and having another cuppa with them. The road that we needed to take today was closed due to the severe ice that had built up over night. Rather than been sat on the bus for a few hours, Arias made the decision to take us back to Queenstown. Ther...

With one day left in Queenstown the only must do activity left was to complete the 3 hour Walk to the Queenstown hill basket. This infamous uphill trek of ice and snow is known for providing the best view of Queenstown and its surroundings from the peak. Making it with only one fall we took in the natural beauty of NZ. It is difficult to describe NZ without making the country sound repetitive but the endless scenes of mountains, trees and lakes created by huge fa...

Our 2nd day at Cordrona Ski resort was made better before we even left as Hes and Emma surprised us on arrival. They had woken up at 5am before everyone else and booked on to the ski bus. With Tes, Carly and Arias also joining us our kiwi ex group were skiing in force. It just so happens that one of our new best friends we have met over the last week, Johannes, is a ski instructor and out of the goodnes of his heart he gave us both an hour long private lesso...

As Queenstown is known for its winter sports its a good place for Charlotte to learn how to ski and Matt to practice. The bus ride up to Cardrona resort was an experience. The driver explained to all the passengers that he was new to the job and was being assessed as part of his training. This became clearly evident. At one point we were driving uphill when after a huge crunch of the gearbox we started to reverse. Not what you need on winding mountain roads with ...