Hi, We arrived in Fiji on Friday 14th in the evening and were glad that we had pre booked accommodation as even the trusted information desk tried to send us to his friends hotel. When we finally found our transfer we headed towards Nadi new town beach and stayed at Beach escape villas. The next day we got the local bus into Nadi town centre to try and organise where we were going to stay in Fiji as Nadi itself is not anything special. We decided to stay on the...

Hello everyone, We are now in the South Island and the scenery is beautiful - Danny, Tim and Nicola keep talking about Lord of the Rings, so sometimes its nice to walk on your own and take in the views while they sing "they are taking the hobits to Isengard." 27th Oct Today we left Gerald and Natalias to catch a ferry to Picton. This was a 3 hour ferry journey to get from the north to the south island and when we got off it was like we were in anothe...

We arrived in New Zealand on the 14th October and booked ourselves onto the Kiwi Wxperience to leave on the 16th. Whilst in Auckland we visited the Auckland Museum and looked around the city. 16th October Up at 5:30am today so that we could get to the Kiwi Experience office to meet our bus for 7am and begin our journey around NZ. The trip up to the Bay of Islands was fun and we were able to meet other travellers from England - after spending weeks in a van thi...

Monday 6th October Today we drove for around 6 hours and got caught in terential rain, however, by the time we had reached Sydney it was bright sunshine. We are staying at Lizette and Tonys (Michelle's Mum's cousin) in Ryde which is only 25mins away from the centre on the bus. They are all really friendly and it's nice to be staying in a family home after weeks in the van. Tuesday 7th October We made sure we did all the tourist attractions today and went strai...

Thurs 2nd October We left the Gold Coast and headed inland to a national park today to see some scenery. We went to a waterfall and some lookouts before going to see a natural stone bridge. We got some great photos and were having quite a good day. However, when we left the natural bridge area we noticed that the light was on which said that a door was open. Michelle went out to close it and noticed that a back door was open (not just half shut as we thought i...