Hello! Sorry again for the long silence - I am still here! However, one of the girls in my group has just updated her blog for the first time in almost a month - so you should count yourselves lucky really..... :-p Having finally managed to get some photos up, I've had some complaints that some of them are the wrong way round. I am aware of this and will try and get it sorted asap. Because I am uploading directly from my memory card I am reluctant to change ...

Hello again! Yes, I do realise that I have now gone from one extreme to the other, and it is hardly any time since I last wrote, but I thought you should all know that this awfully stressful life that I've been living over the past few weeks just got too much - so I decided to throw myself off a bridge :-) Yes, that's right, yesterday afternoon the Kiwi bus made a stop at the famous Kawarau bridge outside queenstown, and I bungyed (bungeed? bungied?)! It was a...

Hello! And apologies again for the long silence, I have had e-mails from several people chastising me for the length of time since I last wrote - so sorry everyone! As you're about to see our days have been pretty full, and as Kiwi often take us "off the beaten track", internet access isn't always great. Last entry I was about to head off to the East Cape for 4 days, which was absolutely fab :-D The East Cape is a predominantly Maori area of NZ and ...

Kia Ora! I can't believe I've only been in NZ for a week, I've done so much already! I arrived in Auckland on Friday morning and spent the weekend visiting the sky tower, Auckland museum and enjoying the sunshine! Monday morning I joined up with the Kiwi Experience bus and we headed down to Whitianga (Mercury Bay) where we spent some time at Hot Water beach. The sea itself was pretty chilly, but hot water bubbles up through the sand and it is possible to dig ...