Alright everyone. Enjoying our quick tour of the North Island, we rented a car as soon as we got off the plane and headed for Rotarua, the worlds smelliest town! Stinks of egg all the time - woke up and the room smelled even worse than normal. It's because of these sulphur springs but is quite a cool town and did find a pub to watch the cup final, although they didn't show extra time so an unsatifying nights sleep. Understand United were robbed. Good. Did a bit m...

Australasia World Cup 6-a-side footie tournament for backpackers in Queenstown. Grandison and Beeching rock up hungover a bit late and with no suitable footwear. Get put in a team with 4 other Englishmen and call ourselves England Rejects. Tournament format is 2 groups of 5, semi final and final. Game 1: Conditions are hard as it's muddy and we have no boots. Doesn't stop the fluid passing game though. We've adopted a 2,2,1 formation with PB playing the playm...

Hello! Been in Queenstown for 3 nights now and really enjoying it. It's the only place in NZ where you can have a decent night out it seems. Done a bit of hill climbing and seen some fantastic scenery although consistantly hungover. Hoping to do a bit of street luge tomorrow. We went to the Franz Josef glacier but annoyingly the hike got cancelled due to excessive rain so we plan to go back on the way back up to Christchurch. Weather here is awesome if a bit co...

Alright guys, Obviously we are now in New Zealand so the jumpers and fleeces have come out big time!The weather has been pretty good with clear blue skies quite a lot of the time but unfortunately the temperature doesn't seem to have rised above the -10 degree mark (at least it seems that way, probs still warmer than England in Autumn). Since we got here we have looked around Christchurch which managed to fill up the majority of the morning and headed to Ka...