Kamloops and JasperFebruary 6th - 9thAfter some massive haggling over the price of our car we managed to secure a hugely bad boy black SUV with all-wheel drive for a decent price. Still not sure whether the bloke massively sorted us out or not as we thought after we'd agreed the price and everything that we were just getting a simple car - didn't hang around to argue though... The heated seats have been on pretty much constantly since we pulled out of the car par...

Vancouver February 4th - 6th Arrived in Vancouver after 24 hours of travelling and it was still the same day - very Back to the Future. First thing that unsurprisingly hit us was the freezing cold so we were soon layered up and practically doubled in size. Stayed in a really nice hostel which was more like a homestay as the kitchen was great and the owners were really helpful in planning the rest of our Canada tour (ie: buy wool you nutters and definitely get...

Wanaka and Mount CookJanuary 30th - February 3rdStayed at a great campsite overlooking Lake Outlet which was beautiful. We went a bit crazy and decided to climb mount Rob Roy on our first full day and it turned out to be higher than Ben Nevis! We managed it in 4.5 hours return which wasn't a bad effort and the views of Wanaka were spectacular - well worth a few blisters, but was bloody steep! Didn't hang around too long at the top as it was really cold and win...

Queenstown and Milford Sound January 26th - 29th Got into Queenstown at a decent time and got our bungee jump booked straight away for the following morning - best to get these things out of the way. We were both pretty terrified on the drive there and I'd had about 3 dreams/nightmares about it the night before. At least they got it over with quickly - we turned up and within 20 minutes we were looking out over the edge of the Kawarau bridge (the world's...

We decided to break the journey from Abel Tasman down to Franz Josef Glacier at a DOC campsite just outside Hokitika on the west coast, at Lake Kaniere. On the way down there, we stopped off at Pancake Rocks - a natural phenomenon caused by the way the sea erodes the rocks, forming them into stacks which look like piles of pancakes - and reminding me of the pancakes with bacon, banana and maple syrup we had courtesy of Kate T - yum yum yummy! It's called Punaka...