The campers awoke to the thunderous sound of rain pounding on the outside of their somewhat delapidated hostel ready and waiting for the days events to unveil. Now some might think that walking in flip flops in the pouring rain is an easy task but alas this was not the case as nikki slipped and slided almost falling on her newly oversized arse (someone should really tell her to lay off the candies!!). Once arrived at the glacier centre the task of dressing up as ...

So we left nelson and headed back to kaiteriteri where i did the kayaking but this time i decided to do a walk through the abel tasman national park with a peruvian girl i had met in Nelson - it was quite a nice relaxing walk and not too strenuous at all. Once we finished the walk we had time left to swim in appletree bay before the water taxi picked us up - beautiful clear water! Got to westport and there was nada there so not much to report on that one. Next da...

Bonjour tout le monde! Ok well im now in Nelson and so far have been having a great time! After Christchurch we headed north to Kaikoura where the dolphins, whales, seals etc are. We got up at 4am to swim with the dolphions and it was an amazing experience - something ive wanted to do since the age of 7 when i first went to sea world so 16yrs later my dream came true - almost cried!! (over emotional idiot i am!) But it was really cool as they were all swimming ...

kia-ora from Aotearoa! Hello from new zealand! Well i arrived here in christchurch on friday and so far really enjoying it here. It's alot like england in a way except the sun is shining!! So i have just been sorting out which tour im gonna do around the islands and ive decided on the kiwi experience. I hadnt realized that there is so much to do in the south island so glad i have the time to take it easy and enjoy it all instead of rushing form one place to the n...

So after a few days in perth i embarked on another tour down south. I wasnt sure whether to do another tour but glad i did as had an amazing time and met some really lovely people. Got on the bus and on the way hardly anybody spoke - it was q funny but we were all tired as an early start! On the bus were 3 japanese girls, 1 japanese guy, (cant remember their names - one of the girls was called yoki), 1 brit girl - kirstie, a scotish couple - matthew and clare, a ...