From Malborough Sounds we travelled inland a bit to Arrowtown, it was originally a gold digers town and was like something out of the wild west. Leaving our hopes of finding gold behind we drove to nearby Wanaka and had three days snowboarding. On the whole we had good weather, great snow and unfortunatly a few injuries along the way. But all in all it was fab! After three days, realising we are not getting any younger we dragged our sore, aching bodies to Qu...

After picking up our car for the next month we drove south from Christchurch on the start of our road trip round the southern coast. We followed the coastal road to our first port of call Omaru in the hope of seeing some rare penguins. That afternoon we went up to the Blue Penguin Colony visitors center and through an organised viewing we saw blue penguins coming in from a day feeding at sea. They are tiny about 30cm tall and surf up the beach on waves at dusk th...

So after our four flights we made it back to the Western world in the form of Auckland in the north island. Walking out of the airport into a cold rainy day and fresh air was the best. Don't get me wrong Asia had been amazing but some cold fresh air was like a piece of heaven and a lot like home!. Auckland is a nice enough city although we didn't get much chance to see it all. We did wander around the harbour salivating at all the lovely restaurants and just...