Queenstown has a lovely little town and reminds me of a skiing resort town. We stayed in a holiday park for three nights, near the river where you can book a ride on the best high speed boat thrill (supposedly)... The Shotover or do some white water rafting. The following day Newton, James and I went to spend the afternoon on some rapids! We had to travel by mini bus on the old deathly mining road. One of the Kiwi instructors on board spent the whole 40 minute ...

We drove to our first destination en route to collect Carry and Newton from Christchurch, Kaikoura. We did our usual of rolling up unprepared wanting to swim with the dolphins. It was fully booked but there was luckily two seats left to simply view the dolphins from the boat.. it's like they knew we were coming... Muse reservation! Well what a boat trip to remember, never mind the dolphins!... There were 3 metre swells and were bloody chasing dolphins! We were th...

I think the check in lady at the airport didn't like the look of James, she gave him the window seat next to this extremely obese man... he took up half of James' seat, so he was sat pinned against the window on one arse cheek! He soon got moved. And there was me sat in the exit row with plenty of leg room. We noticed a change in temperature as soon as we reached Auckland, so out came the pumps and away with the flip flops. Two friends we met in Asia, Carry and...

We arrived on our very last Greyhound bus, and the worst yet. Another 12 hour journey through the night. I think with all the stress of trying to make the bus in time, it made us restless and very sweaty! We didn't hold out much hope on the accommodation front. Three weeks prior we put an ad on Gumtree website, requesting a bed. We had a response from a girl called Alicia who lives in St Kilda. She was charging us $25 each a night to stop in a mattress in her l...

We took another overnight bus to Sydney, and awoke at about 7.30 in the morning crossing the Sydney harbour bridge looking at the amazing Opera House.. Certainly cheered me up after a lack of sleep. Sydney is basically London but with the longest bloody traffic light system.. seriously if you need to be somewhere, add on another half an hour just to cross the roads. We met two Ozzy girls, Sarah and Jenny, in Alice Springs, and they had kindly offered to put us u...