Today we have had our first rainy day of New Zealand, we shouldn't complain and it was expected so that is why we booked three days here. The rain doesn't ruin the walks but the really low lying cloud does so we spent the day doing boring things like laundry which after camping we were desperate for and having a marathon TV watching session! So now you have ten days' worth of blogs to go back through, unfortunately we can't upload any photographs from here bec...

We had a shaky start this morning, our bus was leaving at ten past eight for Fox Glacier and the alarm on the iPad failed us (damn technology!) so it was a little rush to up and leave but we had plenty of time for sleeping on the seven hour journey! A journey which could be shortened to about four hours if it wasn't for the toilet, lunch and afternoon tea stops! It is a pretty scenic journey over to the West Coast and we arrived in the very small town of Fox, w...