Hi guys! sorry about the delay....again! its so hard updating this blog when your having loads of fun! Ok lets get you up to speed. We flew into Brisbane from New Zealand and we spent the night at my family's house before flying north to Darwin (another 4hours) the next day with my cousin and his girlfriend, we were going to the outback! We landed in Darwin and were struck by the dead heat straight away, we don't now how or why people could live in this heat. T...

Hello Team, Well what a busy 12 days we had on the South Island! We started by going to Kaikoura to do some whale watching but unfortunately we encountered our second day of rain in 3.5 months and it was cancelled. So we continued south and went to Franz-Josef glacier where we did a glacier hike for the day, it was awesome and warmer than you'd think. We then made our way to Queenstown to begin our thrill seeking adventures! First came the 12,000ft skydive ove...

Sorry for the delay, NZ's internet access is quite poor. Anyways, we landed in Auckland after our 11hr flight from Shanghai and to pick up our campervan which is now our new best friend! We drove to our friends Peter and Kate's for a hot shower and some help in planning our trip. We started by going north to Northland (funily enough) and visited Paihia & Russell in the Bay of Islands we then came back down the west coast visiting Hokianga natural harbour wh...

Hello again, Hangzhou was recommended to us by a number of people so we decided to jump on a train and spend a couple of days there. Marco Polo described the place as the most beautiful city in China. We arrived at lunch time and wandered around, grabbed some food (our favourite, you basically pick what you want, meat balls, mushrooms, potato etc and they chuck it in a pot and then put spices etc in there). That night we walked along a bit of the lake taking so...

Hi Guys, We arrived in Shanghai around 7am with our german friend Sebastian and were greeted with the first days rain since we left England 10weeks ago! I didn't feel great but we only wanted to spend two days here so we decided to get straight out and see the sights. The visibility was really poor matched up with it being a national holiday and queues for most tourist sights were huge so not a great day, we went back to the hostel and got some sleep. That night...