Day 81 Halfway through my trip! I can't believe it - I'll be home before you know it! I hope you are all having a lovely Easter weekend, and eating lots of chocolate! We have had another couple of great days in New Zealand - yesterday we made the most of the snow and blue skies at Lake Tekapo with a walk round part of the lake. Absolutely breathtaking, and the colour really is fantastic. We then headed back to Christchurch and had a quiet day today looking at s...

Day 77 Hello again! I hope you are all looking forward to Easter (and Happy Passover) and to all of you on/going on holiday in the near future, I hope you have an amazing time:) New Zealand is still fabulous; we have spent two days on an overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound, which is the second largest fiord in New Zealand, and is absolutely spectacular. I cannot begin to describe just how beautiful it is, and will upload some photos which will go some way to sho...

Day 75 Another fantastic couple of days in South Island; with some fabulous views and awesome activities! Yesterday we had our longest drive of the holiday; about 5 hours from Franz Josef to Queenstown - it can hardly be described as a hardship when we wanted to stop every 10minutes to take a photo of the amazing scenary! We drove through mountains, past lakes (fortunately not through them!) and through pastureland. Absolutely spectacular, and some very very be...

Day 73 Hello again - with love from a Glacier!!! I met Mum and Dad on Monday, and we have had a fabulous few days in South Island. Christchurch was lovely (only partly to do with the smart hotel!!) and we had a great day at the Antarctic Centre; not only was it really interesting, but we also had the chance to experience 10mins in a simulated blizzard (-42 is cold!!), saw 25 little blue penguins being fed (all with disabilities) and rode an off road heggalund. ...

Day 69 Sorry I haven't updated you for so long - internet access this week has been a little sketchy! I hope you have all had a good week, and you are all beginning to look forward to Easter:) I have been on a tour across the North Island in NZ and seen an amazing amount in 6 days!! I started by flying from Auckland to Wellington and spending 24hours there which was great - a really lovely city. I think I prefer it to Auckland, and the National Museum (Te Papa)...