Following a hectic last night on the North Island, and we were up early the next morning (6am on a hangover!) and cobbling our stuff together for our crossing over onto the South island. The 2 hour crossing gave us all the chance to catch up on some sleep - which we duly did - and before long we could see the banks of the South island, and were immediately impressed. We passed through Malbourough Sounds, a stunning scenery where hilly lands meet with watery inl...

After saying goodbye to Jodie in Melbourne, my family in Brisbane and my lovely Lottie in Perth, I headed to New Zealand, and for the first time ever, I travelled alone. As ever with arriving in a new country, the first few hours is always the weirdest and most daunting, and so it proved as I arrived in Auckland at around 2am on a Saturday morning (Friday night!). My chosen hostel was to be found on the K-Road, a road I soon found out to be a party street, wher...

We left Asia for the vastness of Australia, the world's largest island. Due to the rules of our round-the-world tickets, for Lottie to return to the UK early she had to fly home via Australia, so we arranged flights into Perth before departing the very next day! On the far South-Western corner of Australia, Perth is one of the most affluent cities in the country and one that we were both excited to. We landed in Perth early morning and took a taxi over to our d...