Hello from the town of her Majesty's!!!!  we have been here a few days now and we are actually going to stay here until Wednesday so it will have been a week. What can I say, Queenstown is the place to be and we dont want to leave!!!! Its such a cool town, full of backpackers and has such a great atmosphere, and its so pretty as its surrounded by these huge mountains and a lake. Its a shame I wont get to see it covered in snow as its too mild at the moment ...

Hello,Wow Cant believe I have less than 2 weeks left here! Time has flown by.Right now we are in Franz Josef, we are here for 2 nights, its a really small town, not much going on, apart from lots of trekking and glacier hiking! Something we will be experiencing tomorrow morning at 7am ( ahhhhhh Im hating these early starts more and more now, I am so not a morning person at all) So now are 3 of us as Hayley has joined us, its great to see her. We decided to go all...

Hi everyone, well lots has happened since I last wrote but we are always so busy and rushing around everywhere so we never seem to have time to write our journal! But……..got lots to tell you, the main one being ( for those of you that don’t already know) I threw myself out of a plane on Good Friday!!!!! Yep that’s right, Little Laura, scared of practically everything, big wimp, I did it, I did a skydive and it was AMAZING!!!!!! Sam and I...

Hello from Paihia, Sam and I are in New Zealand now. We had a great last night out in Cairns, and I am sure most of you haver probably heard, we almost missed our flight ;-) Long story but to cut it short we decided that because it was our last ever night out in Oz, and we were getting our flight at 6am, we would go out with some friends we had met up with from Fraser Island and just not go to bed. BIG mistake. A few drinks turned into quite a lot and after liter...

Hi everyone, Well this will be my last email from Oz, as we leave nice n early tomorrow to go to New Zealand. Im going to miss Oz loads as we really have had the most amazing time. WE have seen so many beautiful places and met some great people. I am actually looking forward to slowing down a bit over in NZ though as we’ve heard it’s a lot more chilled out and slower paced! Sam and I are all partied out!!!! WE need lots of early nights and comfy beds ...