We are staying right on Hollywood Boulevard and it's a crazy place. Our hostel is the only place on the whole street with a proper door, which would probably look more appropriate on a house in the suburbs. The street is busy all day and night with tourists visiting the Chinese Mann theatre (where the film premiers are) just across the road and the Kodak theatre (where the award ceremonies are held). We are right on the walk of fame, where actors have their name ...

We arrived in Fiji, with our jackets and fleeces quickly packed away, and a Fijian band played music welcoming us in at the airport. We had heard quite a few bad things about Fiji, such as it's not safe, there are a lot of thefts, it's dirty blah blah blah. Fiji is a third world country and although some areas are not particularly nice it isn't the same for the whole of the Island. We flew into Nadi and were expecting to be harassed by taxi men etc as people had...

Auckland also known as the city of sails, loads of sailing in the harbour, as you might of guessed. Has a huge Sky tower that you can jump off and you should be able to see that in the picture. There are lots of little Islands that you can do day trips too from the mainland but we have sadly run out of time on this trip. Yesterday Chris decided he wanted to do a bungee jump, and he did it off the Auckland harbour bridge. I cheered him on from my safe spot, on the...

We stayed one night in Raglan a beautiful seaside town, the surfing capital of NZ (I made that last bit up). But it is where all the pro surfers practice and we watched a few in the freezing water, some were standing on their surf boards and paddling with an oar, not quite sure what that is all about. We initially wanted to head up to the bay of plenty and go to Hot water beach where you can dig in the sand and sit in boiling hot sand, but there had been lots of ...

Rotorua stinks!! Literally! It stands upon a bundle of volcanic activity and the earths magma below is boiling, creating bubbling mud pools, and steaming pools in a variety of colours, orange, green and grey on the earths surface. There is a rotten eggy smell that descends upon the whole town, steam rises up out of the drains on the road and the whole town sits in a crater made by a volcano. You might say it's an unusual place and you'd be right. The first da...