Air Asia was certainly an interesting experience. From what I could tell with the reviews it all goes one way or the other. You will either be fine or pretty unfine. I put place ours experience in the latter. The flight took off late because all the check in machines had broken. The regular economy seats did not have enough leg room but we had gone even cheaper and were in super economy. Ten out of ten for perseverance can be awarded to the guy in front o...

Having done very little planning ahead we touched down in Hong Kong and realised it was getting on for midnight and that we had not made any arrangements regarding accommodation. This made us feel less guilty about splashing out for plush air conditioned room in a nice hotel. To be fair though being in South East Asia meant it was comparable in cost to some western hostels. When we arrived we got a few curious looks from other guests in the lobby area. Cle...

When we touched down into Sydney we were greeted with an unexpected chaos which would come from trying to get to our hostel.When we walked out into the sun from Sydney international we only had a very rough idea of how to get into the city and to our hostel.Before we knew it though a mini van pulled up and the driver shouted to get in as he was double parked.Apparently all the hostel mini vans ran from the domestic terminal. At the domestic terminal we trans...

Japan has really stolen the thunder regarding earthquakes but Christchurch is still in a terrible state.The busses are a complete mess as the CBD is completely closed and guarded by soldiers as there are about 130 building still waiting for the wrecking ball.We had booked a hostel in advance because as far as we could see there were only two or three operating.Most were in the exclusion zone and some were not operating as no backpackers were going there.We stay...

We touched down in Auckland on Saturday morning at about 630am.Those of you with an eager eye and half a clue about Geography will have of course noticed that we left at 2am on Friday morning and NZ and Tahiti are pretty close. We had crossed the International Date Line and as Rachel pointed out on Facebook we had missed the best day of the week. We met up in the airport with Nicko and Marry so we could all email home to tell everyone we were ok as well as che...