Well hello to all! It is coming close to the end of 2007,and we have just spent Christmas in Wellington! Our journey down to Welly was an adventure in itself!The Magic Bus driver took us up Mt Victoria as we arrived,and as we were going up we had to squeeze past a lam post as a bus coming down would not move. We were literally inches from the edge of the mount and millimetres from the lampost! Then as we continued up we swerved to avoid a van too close to the...

Hey there... just a quick note to tell you about our stay in Turangi. We have stayed here just one night in the YHA. The YHA did the trick....nothing special about this hostel! It is a bit of a wilderness stop as there is nothing to do here except do some nice scenic walks....which is what we have done! We were going to do the Tongariro crossing (a 7hr hike) but due to weather we cant as the track is closed - Andrew was most relived haha! So instead we did a nice...

Hello from Taupo! Taupo is right in the mddle of the North Island, next to lake Taupo, the biggest lake in New Zealand. The lake is actually a crater from a volcanic eruption nd noone knows how deep it is!Isnt that fascinating! After a rather active time in Rotorua we had only planned to do a couple of things in Taupo, one was a skydive and the other a trip on a jet boat! Unfortunatly the weather had other ideas! Our journey down to Taupo was on a lovely, i...

We have just passed through Rotorua for the first time, and boy have we been busy! Rotorua was the place where we planned to do most of our activities, and we have kept to that!! One of the things we really wanted to do was Zorbing, which was invented in Rotorua itself! For those who do not know you basically get inside a big rubber ball and roll down a hill! (Crazy I hear you cry!) We did a hydro Zorb...with warm water in our zorb as well as ourselves and we we...

(Emma spent 25 mins writing a detailed quality blog on Waitomo....only for the computer to wipe it!!!!) Andrew will now write a brief blog to summarise our time here!!! So Waitomo makes Bempton look like a city! It has 41 permannt residents and is the size of a car park! We booked for 2 nights.....why I hear you cry??? Well.... In Waitomo there are glow-worm caves! These caves are an amazing site! The only light is made from the glowworms! We went on the Spellb...