HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE! Hope everyones having a romantic one! (Joe you better be all by yourself). The cross over boat from the South to the North Island was really pretty so we sat on the deck the whole journey (Gill wasn't sick this time!). At the mo im in a town called Taupo. We arrived yesterday and decided to check out the adventure centre as we were passing through. To celebrate valentines day, the girlies and I decided to do a SKYDIVE! (eek!...

Hello, hope you're all well! After the whales we decided to head up further north to see the top part of the south island (before we cross over to the north island this Saturday). We hit a town called Nelson which has a lovely beach and ended up being our home for 2 days!. There was a vollyball tournament which was fun to watch (too energetic to play mind!). Afterwards we headed up further north to the peak of the island called 'farewell' - (cute!). We d...

Hi everyone! Next on route after Queenstown was the West Coast. After heading through to a cute town called Wananka we decided to try and head on to the Fox glacier the same night. Unfortunately we stupidly mistook a stoney off-beat road with only sheep, cow and dear as company, for the main road. After only passing 2 cars in 3 hours we decided to stop and ask some farmer who laughed and told us that we were actually on 'the road to nowhere!'. Whoops! i lo...

Hello there! Thanks for all your messages on my board - makes me look very popular indeed!. Mum, dad missing you loads, and well done Zofeen - told you you would be fine!. Hello to all my special lady friends at home -missing you so much! EXTREME SPORTS FOR ME!..... went on a shootover jet boat yesterday on a river in Queenstown, It was brilliant! the boat only needed 2 inches of water to travel on so we were surfing the rocks aswel!. Went through loa...

Hi everyone, hope your all fab. i dont really know where to begin on New Zealand..its all been a bit of a blur its been that great!. We started of in Christchurch where we picked up our campervan called grandma as shes the oldest escape rentals truck there is!!.- which by the way you'l be please to know that I am driving too! (very brave indeed). We then drove up through mountains to see akoroa (where lord of the rings was filmed) it was sooo beautiful, infa...