Hi everyone, Since we last wrote, we've travelled up through Wellington to Auckland, where we're spending the next few days until we fly onto Malaysia. After a somewhat disappointing stay in Wellington we drove north on Friday towards the Tongariro National Park in the centre of the country.Driving in the north island is very different to being in the south - it's hard to believe it's only 50km across the water!There are so many more towns up here and althoug...

Hey Guys, Wow this might be a long one so sorry in advance. In two days we have gone not only from the West to East coast of New Zealand we have gone from South to North as well. All the way from the Tasman Sea to the Pacific Ocean. When we left you we had got to Lake Tekapo, then we where getting up to go to Kaikoura via Christchurch the following day. Well we had a good and deserved night's sleep and the bed was so comfy we treated ourselves to a bit of a l...

Hi guys, Right well we have covered a lot of ground in the last few days, but first off let's start were we left you. My birthday dinner was lovely we went to a restaurant called Pier 19 in Queenstown I had calamari to start (standard) and the fish of the day not the fish platter (but the people next to us had that and it did look amazing) while Katie had Seafood dumpling soup and fresh crayfish with a bottle of bubbly and a few beers so we both had a good tim...

Hello everyone, We've had a rather action packed last few days! Martin got up early on Friday and did his bungee jump - I would have gone to watch but paying $50 to drive up a dodgy mountain road +standing in a glass pod 150m off the ground didn't really do it for me - a lie-in it was! Enter martin to talk about bungee… It was more of a bungee 'tip of the edge' than a bungee jump as I was rather nervous! The jump is the highest in New Zealand and the 5th ...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times} Hi Guys, So here we are in Queenstown the adventure capital of New Zealand and we have immediately thrown ourselves in at the deep end. We travelled down from Wanaka this morning over a road that cut through the ski hills and Diana coped with it brilliantly, although only in 3rd gear. It was a very hilly climb and we could see why were advised not to use the road in bad weather ...