Waking up very early on my last day in New Zealand I was so excited, Uncle Gideon dropped me off at the airport in plenty of time, gave me a chance to browse around the shops. 14th October 2009 I arrived in Australia, the fight went well and once again didn't get bagged searched or held back, so far so good ( I then had a little trouble getting out of the airport the shuttle that was meant to be there for me was no where to be seen, so it ended up being an exp...

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...

FIJI is AWESOME! So the flight to Fiji was very pleasant as it was an over night one everyone just slept, I arrived in Fijiat 5.10 and was greeted by a lady with a seashell necklace, I was shown the way to my lift and luggage carried for me (very sweet) in the van was a Girl called Emily she was also 19 from England, couldn't believe my luck as we were both starting the same Fiji trip on the same day! We headed to Nadi bay where we had to get our vouchers for th...