After dropping the campervan off we headed back into Christchurch. The hail carried on all afternoon but we were glad to be in our apartment and chilled out for the afternoon. We had our bottle of bubbles from Chard Farm and then went out for dinner at the Tap Room. After a few drinkies and far too much steak (Mum & Alicia both having had the BEAST - 400g steaks!) we went back - a proper bed (until we realised our hotel backed onto the nosiest clubs in town a...

Another sunny morning saw us heading down from Wanaka to Te Anau. The weather was wonderful for the whole trip and we arrived at our campsite in time to have a beer and cold pizza for lunch. The site was on the edge of the lake and the view was fantastic (but the facilities weren't so great - hey ho). We decided on the trips we wanted to do and headed into town and booked them. We spent a bit of time of the internet and then went to stock up at the supermarket be...

After a 40 min flight, we arrived in Christchurch (still hungover). We got the Shuttle bus to our apartment, dumped our stuff and headed into town. Christchurch is very pretty in places but quite scary in others. After wandering round for what seemed like forever we chose a restaurant to have a late lunch/early dinner and then headed back to our apartment. The next day was the start of our adventure. We went to the supermarket earlyish and picked lunch (and wine...

Woo Hoo! Wellington is fab - we could live here (only joking!). We arrived in Wellington after a very easy drive to drop the rental car off and then got a taxi into town and booked into the hostel. The hostel's in a great spot, only a few mins walk from everywhere it seems, Wellington is only 2 km across! We headed down to the wharf and had a wander around and a couple of beers at the Mac's Micro Brewery - very nice. We then headed up to Cuba Street where all...

With sore legs and aching limbs, we headed down to Napier. What a cool place! The journey took us about 3 hours but we took our time and had to sing to each other as the radio wasn't working! We struggled to find accomodation in Napier as it's the grape picking season so alot of the hostels are booked up but we got a room for our first night a backpackers in town. Napier is mainly Art Deco as after a massive earthquake in the 30's the whole city was destroyed...