off to paradise in approximately 12 hours, woo hoo!! went up the sky tower last night, awesome views of acukalnd and for once, it didnt rain!! so an early start in the morning and then to nadi and straight to robinson crusoe island for some serious chill time! id like to do a shout out to the bankers at natwest for giving me a credit card, this one's on you guys! xx

hello everyone, well the end is nigh! well ish anyway, pretty excited to be coming home soon , but also very sceptical of rentering the real world! so we drove up to auckland and took us forever to try and find some accomodation with parking so we made the decision to get rid of golam! hes served us well but we had no use for him anymore! auckland is alot bigger than the capital wellington, kind of strange to be amongst som many people again, and traffic!! met up...

AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH today ihad the most incredible two minutes of my life bar none! i jumped 12,000 ft out of a plane, freefalling at 200km/h for 45 seconds and it was amazing to say the least, i feel like ivebeen reborn!!! it was quite an effort tho... first of all taupo at 50 quid a jump was by far cheapest so spent two days there tryuing to jump, yesterday i spent 9 hours at the airport on call! oh and i went up in the plane and stood on the edge 2x and s...

hey ho, well hmmm the weather is ........horrible! and yes thatnkyuou for the constant reminders i know uk is very hot! our few days in nelson where beautiful and then freak storms and gale force winds hit nz! auckland was completely out of power, emergency services were on full alert and where were we? driving to taupo! the rain was horrendous, worse ever seen and then as i was driving on the coastal route the waves were crashing over the sides bringing with it ...

hey greetings from wellington, so we all made it in one piece to the north island. it is definately warmer here! yey! we are staying at the worlds scabbiest hostel but its cheap so hey, but its not that nice compared to asia hostels nevermind the luxury were used to here, free soup, saunas, jaccuzi and steam rooms are standard usually! last night we watched the ireland v all blacks match in a local pub (ireland lost) and were planning on watiting till 1.30 am f...