Hello all and Happy Easter! Thanks for the riddle Dad, still haven't worked it out yet, i've searched my hostel room high and low! Happy anniversary Grandma and Grandad, im not exactly sure of the date but i know it's soon! Sorry I couldnt be there to celebrate with you. I went on a glacier walk yesterday, as you can see. The Franz Josef glacier was really impressive. It had loads of cravasses and ice caves with strange bright blue walls. The trek it...

Hello all. I have had an action packed few days that i thought i had better tell you about! From Christchurch we headed to a place called Kaikoura which was very much like cornwall. On the way there, we spotted seals and an entire pod of dolphins jumping out of the water. This inspired me to go out on a boat to swim with them. It was amazing. The boat went about 100 metres off the shore until it was above the Kaikoura 'canyon', which is where the sea beco...

Hello, me again! We have safely arrived in Christchurch, South island New Zealand. We spent a very boring morning hanging around in Nadi airport this morning as our flight was delayed by an hour, could have been worse though i suppose! I had a bit of trouble at Christchurch airport. Luckily I thought to declare a wooden mask I bought in Fiji at the last second, otherwise I could have been fined $2000 or sent to jail as it turned out that it was infested with bu...

Bula! So that is it,we have done Fiji. Three down, two to go! The Fijian islands were fantastic, they literally were stereotypical paradise islands. The bounty advert was filmed on the island next to the first one we stayed on, which was about half the size of our school field! Luckily, we had two full days of sunshine, which made a change! We did loads of snorkelling on amazing reefs and hung about in hammocks the rest of the day! We fly to New zealand at seve...

Hello hello. We have finished our Fiji experience and are back in Nadi. We had a really good time. Over the course of four days,we played some rugby against fjians on a beach, visited two villages, a school, went sandboarding, had a kava ceremony (kava is a local drink that numbs your whole body, made from the kava root and water), danced with some tribal elder women, got very muddy in some mud pools baked in a thermal hot pool, and went swimming in a waterfall p...