Enthusiastically stopping off in the tourist office again this morning was all too easy in the pristine Queenstown. This time we were enquiring about a Ferry from Picton over to Wellington, on the North Island, for the not too distant future. It seemed that the spaces were being booked up at a ferocious pace so we wanted some assistance just to double check that we were doing everything correctly - $293 was a lot of money to get something wrong! Now the ferry wa...

I've just realised that we've been travelling for over a month; that doesn't actually sound either long or impressive, but it feels like I've been travelling for years! Today was just what the doctor ordered: a chance to recharge the batteries and unwind a little. Queenstown is the perfect tonic for a weary traveller, with its laid back attitude, abundance of alpine air and plentiful eateries - you can't help but feel instantly at home. Browsing the shops for s...

Waking up in a slightly mildewed camper wasn't as bad as you might think for a princess like me, in fact, I rather enjoyed the experience. Grasping my toothbrush and washing essentials I vacated the van only to realise that someone has stolen our camp table from under our van in the night - I did wonder why the car next to us left at 6am. I'm getting really sick of running into vile people, they seem to follow us around like a plague. In the hopes of a catharsis...

Waking up at the south end of Lake Pukaki was absolutely beautiful! The brilliant teal colour of the water against the light grey, stone shore was so picturesque, with the Southern Alp's snow capped mountain range framing the whole scene in the background. Incidentally, the water is such a vivid teal in the majority of the rivers and lakes here as the water is glacial. This means that the water posses what is called 'rock flour', this is extremely fine - almost s...

After a fragmented sleep on the airport floor, both of us weren't feeling particularly chipper, but as promised our transfer came to pick us up at 8am and we gratefully clambered aboard. On arrival at the camper van retail park we were introduced to our camper - it was an utter anticlimax. The thing looked like something you would find on the Antiques Roadshow and absolutely nothing like the glossy, red-striped camper vans advertised on the website, and too make...