24th - 30th Nov Been hectic as ever in NZ, recovered from the night before in Taupo by going and spending time chilling in the nearby lake, with amazing views of 'Mount Doom' from Lord Of The Rings in the backdrop.We moved from Taupo day after a moderate breakfast (peanut butter and jam on toast AGAIN!), to make our way to River Valley.We stopped on the way for some sensational views of Mount Doom, before going for a 'refreshing' dip in Taranaki Falls, which w...

RIght, sorry for delay in blog over the last while, have been furiously busy in New Zealand, so here's an update of my first week in the Kiwi land. 17th Nov - 23rd Nov So got to Auckland early hours in the morning and manage to navigate the relevant bus into the city and found my hostel, it was currently 5am in the morning so couldn't check into the hostel yet, but could hang about for a bit cleaning my revolting clothes and showering after being in the same cl...

Ok whoo, hungover bloging always good............so this is the rest of my NZ trip so from Nelson to Christchurch....... So morning after kayaking, had to get on the Kiwi bus, with a bunch of new people, so on the way to Westport, we stopped at an awesome lake, where all the Kiwi experience brochure photos had been taken, so time for cliche photos jumping in the lake, only like 8 people from the bus of say 40 actually jumped in, so cliche photos done we moved ...