Friday 5th June 2009 3 months down the line and I am now living in 9 Brunswick Street, Queenstown. About 1 week after arriving in Queenstown I met a girl called Amy Everin she was staying in a room with a group of lads I met on the Kiwi bus. She was also hoping to stay in the little town. Over the next few days we went and looked at flats together a found what we thought at the time was a good place on 12A Isle Street, we stayed there for a month as it was centr...

Kiwi experience bus tour Tuesday 2nd February 2009 Had an early start to the day as I was going into the city with my uncle at 5.30am, as he had to go to work, I had the biggest full English breakfast yum! I sat around anxiously waiting to go to the kiwi experience bus stop. At around 8.15 Gideon came and helped me with my bags and took me around the corner, where a few other backpackers were waiting. Whilst I was waiting I got talking to an Essex girl, Denise,...

New Zealand life so far….. It's been exactly a month since I was picked up from the airport by my aunt and half asleep cousin. I'm living in a place called Torbay which is a 20 minute drive from Auckland city with my dads younger brother - Gideon his wife- Maryanne and 4 kids- Daniel, Richard, Sarah and Joanne and 2 student's David from Spain and Mickey from Japan, so its one big happy/busy family. I'm driving a Nissan bluebird (a bit different from a small...