Here I am, in Australia. A new country, a new city... and still, the bloody computers crash when I try to view my photos! But anyways. Here we are, in St Kilda. It's a pretty trendy place, lots of bars, hair salons, boutiques and European style bakeries. I was amazed by how expensive bananas are here - nearly $15 per kilogram! Found an amazing place, it does falafel and is basically a salad bar with loads of kinds of salad, and falafel, and no limit on how many...

Hello. I'm writing this one on an actual computer, so it shouldn't mess up, although I don't have any photos to add to it because this stupid computer won't read my SD card. So you'll have to just imagine until I can find a computer that will read my photos (they're surprisingly difficult to find). The day after tomorrow, we are leaving NZ and flying to Melbourne. It doesn't seem like I've had long enough here to be leaving. I'm feeling a bit apprehensive about ...

Oops it's been a while since I've blogged. Apologies. Since we left National Park, we've been to Taupo, Rotorua and Tauranga and we're now in Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula. Taupo has a big lake and nice views of the volcanoes. There's pumice on the lake shore and very insistent ducks. Instantly it has shops. It was comforting to visit The Warehouse and Pak 'N' Save after a few days in the back of beyond! We saw the Huka Falls, which were a bit underwhel...

Here in NZ, it's easy to believe that only one film series has ever been made. I can't escape Lord Of The Rings. Every hostel we stay at, it's the only DVD anybody watches. I have tried to make sense of them but it just washes over me. At the moment you could also believe that the only song ever written is The Cave by Mumford and Sons. It's this year's Hey There Delilah, She Will Be Loved, Bad Day or You're Beautiful: an average but catchy ballad that gets so ov...

Well it's been over a week since I last blogged. That's not very good.We're now in Picton. The glacier walk in Franz Josef was good, very sunny and hot actually. I felt like I had been shrunk to the size of a Borrower and found myself in a massive freezer. It took a lot of time to get anywhere. We had lots of different nationalities in our group, including some Brazilians whose English wasn't great, so they had some trouble understanding what was going on! We did...