Sooooo. After leaving you last we were in Wellington. The capital, but not actually that exciting really. So we moved on up to Taupo. this has the biggest lake in New Zealand...it is so big that you could actually fit Singapore inside it!!! (fact for the day). Lovely little place, but our bus broke down on the way in the rain! so we arrived quite late. We all ended up going out that night and had a wicked time. Our plan for the next day was to do the Tongariro cr...

Hellllooooo!! Wow haven't written on here in a long time...apologies. Just been so mega busy. After a fantastic end in Australia watching the play at the Opera house (so funny i actually cried with laughter) we flew on over to Christchurch in NZ. Lovely little city...very English actually. Here we spent time in the Botanical gardens, Punting on the river Avon (yes very English) looking round museum and just generally chilling and enjoying some sunshine. We then...

Hello!! Well believe it or not this will be my last blog from Australia booo :-( (also rather exciting as of to New Zealand on Wednesday yipee!). Last time i left you at Airlie beach after our day trips. We had our final day chilling by the lagoon even though it was cloudy...turns out cyclone charlotte was heading down this way after hitting up north. So we jumped on our greyhound up to Townsville to catch our ferry to Magnetic Island. Now i know i have been moa...

Hello! Though it was time for another one of these while i have five minutes! I think last time i left you i was in Noosa...with rain. Well guess what....we got more rain. After a small break in the clouds we headed to the national park to do a walk and look at the beaches, but about 30 mins in the heavens opened and it absolutely chucked it down. Even with our umbrella's (used to protect our cameras and not much else) we got drenched so had to head back! So al...

Happy 2009 everyone! So I have now celebrated christmas and new year Oz style and brought in new year 10 hours before you!! Christmas turned out to be great fun, albeit a little surreal. We spent all day on Coogee beach with a friend we had met on tour and some guys she knew as well. We had sunshine all day and with frisbe on the beach and a bit of fun in the sea before the jelies came in it was not all sunbathing. No bbq or drinks allowed on the beach tho, whic...