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...

hello! so were now in nelson!i drove us the 500 km down here in the lovely 'golam' which was actally a nice drie, althouh long! the roads are so windy and go ight up the mountains so provide a very nice view! Today we went wine tasting..oh the stress!! dad i thoght aot you the whole time, you would have been in your element!! it was either free or $3 so 1 pound fo 4 tastes of diff wines and a olive and varios dips platter! bargain! amy was the designated driver...

wooooooooooooooooooo! today was another extreme day!! me and amy (rhia busy doing applications) decided to do a nice glacier \'walk\' we were persuaded by the hostel that the 1/2 day option was \'crap\' and we just had to had to do the full day, will we cope with it, is it too harcore??...no he said.... well lets just say glacier \'walking\' or should i say climbing is EXTREME! we hade a very early start to the day and got decked out in loadsa layers inc. huge ...

hey so were now in queensland, me and amy were suffering slightly from SAD as we were wearing about 5 layers of clothes and were so cold we could have cried! today however is a slightly warmer(!) day went out last night with amys mates from home that we met up wioth in christchurch. the drive down here wasw beautiful, the roads were so windy and i felt like i was in austria! the day before we left we went to otago museum and also the cadburys factory! were we got...

well so we made it in golam (what i have called our grey car after lord of the rings) allthe way down to dunedin, its like being in england....but colder! nah its absolutelyt beautiful here, went to see some penguins today! yes it is cold enough here for bloody penguins!!!! theyre the yellow eyed rare kind and saw them up close from our hide! then went for a inidan at rhias family restuarant (free, thats the kind of cost i like!) which was beautiful!plam to stay ...