Our last day in Queenstown was spent at the cricket, much to Beth's joy!!! It was meant to rain for most of the day but luckily when we woke up it was dry so we decided to head up to the cricket for a free day. After getting the bus to Frankton, we walked to the cricket ground and found that we were in a huge crowd of 4 people watching the start of the game. It's not really surprising given that the game was between the two powerhouses of world cricket in Scot...

Friday was the last day that my brother was travelling with us before he headed back to the UK via Melbourne. The morning was spent helping him get sorted and sorting our bus out of Queenstown which we have delayed for two more days so that we don't now leave on Tuesday. Once this was sorted and the hostel was booked for a further two nights, we had a quick walk around town before we saw Badge to the bus stop and he headed for the airport. It's been a great ne...

Our travels over the last couple of days have taken us to the southernmost point of our trip in Queenstown. We left Franz Josef on Tuesday morning bound for the town of Wanaka. The weather was truly appalling as we left Franz Josef with the rain belting down. We were lucky with the weather as if we had been trying to do the glacier trip on Tuesday then it would have been cancelled and we wouldn't have been able to do the trip at all. On the way to Wanaka, we ...

It's been a while since the last blog mainly due to the lack of wifi and the amount of travelling we have been doing over the last few days. We left Wellington on Friday and crossed the Cook Strait to the South Island. The weather was ridiculously wet and windy and the ferry crossing wasn't as smooth as we would have liked. The ferry company called it a moderate wind so I would hate to see what a storm force wind was. Anyways, we made it to the South Island a...

So we spent our first ever New Years Eve away from home in the Windy City of Wellington. We all had a really good night and, as you will be able to see from the photos, I was a little bit worse for ware by the end of the night. We had a drink in our room at the hostel before a couple of swift ones in the hostel bar then into town where we went to a few bars. The atmosphere was really good and it was strange to be some of the first to welcome in the new year. ...