Back in Queenstown today saying goodbye to our tents and freedom of having a car! We had just one night to plan and book our next move but we had the luxury of a good room and hostel to make the task easier! With a few hours spent in MacCafe on the internet we had a lot of figuring out to do, my calculations had us still on the South Island with only three days before we flew out of Auckland! We purchased our bus ticket which is based on travelling hours and ma...

Staying near to Milford gave us the perfect opportunity to start out early and spend the day doing a few walks along the road back. Our first was only a twenty minute round walk from the car but it did involve a swing bridge which succeeded in scaring me but it was worth it for the waterfall the other end! The main walk of the day was approximately three hours to Key Summit, after one and half hours walking uphill our thoughts were "it better be worth it&q...

Today leaving early for the road to Milford Sound turned into leaving midmorning the perks of this is that by that time the clouds have gone leaving a blue sky and the tour buses are well ahead of us. We're very glad we've hired a car for this trip instead of being herded from viewpoint to viewpoint! No one can deny the Milford Road is amazing with open plains, steep cliff faces and powerful waterfalls. The drive time quickly increases when you want to stop eve...

Today we picked up our rental car and headed off for our four days in a tent! We took the easy two hour drive out to Te Anau where we were going to spend our first two nights. We thought we were going to be doing this on the cheap but with a tent site costing £20 a night plus the cost of the rentals we were wrong! An expensive way to spend the night on the floor but so worth it! The tent itself wasn't quite up to my standards, 0.85m at its highest point and ju...

Oh dear we (the royal we of course!) have been very bad at keeping these blogs up to date so now ten days later and it has taken a rainy day for me to do some serious catching up, starting with our time in Queenstown. Could Queenstown be the perfect place for Olof? Living by the water? Check. Stunning mountains? Check. Climbing and mountain biking? Check. And of course extreme sports? Check. After all we have done the bungy jumps and sky dives before so we de...