After i left Dunedin i took the bus down to distant relations who live in Balclutha. They very kindly had offered to put me up for a couple of days and so i was staying with Nancy (my Granny's cousin) and had a few trips to the local sights with her sons family. After a thinking about what to do until i meet Sanday up in Christchurch, i decided to make my way down to Invercargill and then across to Stuart Island. When i was going to book the bus Tania (who i was...

I'm home (in a way). Staying in Dunedin at the moment but its slightly odd as it reminds me a lot of Edinburgh. Though it may be the fact that there are Scottish shops everywhere, streets such as Princes St and George St, a statue of Robert Burns and Dunedin is Celtic for Edinburgh. Have been here a couple of days and tomorrow im off to Balcutha to visit a distant relation. Have just been exploring the town, shopping for warm clothes and doing some tourity thing...

Just updating the site to say i'm in New Zealand! Am staying with a really nice family in Christchurch who have kindly offered to put me up for the next couple of days here. Whats great is that there should be a couple of parties to go to as well! Anyways, not much to report other than its cold, Christchurch is a nice town and i'm having a good time.

Made it to Darwin and am actually on time! After we left Sally and Ben by the side of the road and got a lift in to Alice we started to have a look around all the car hire places for prices, this deppressed us. However, the last shop we went into said they just found out about a campervan relocation (when the company wants a car moved citys). The great thing was they would rent us the car for $5 a day if we got to Darwin in 4 days! A perfect deal as that is rough...

Well the past few days have been eventful to say the least but i better work up to the exciting stuff... I ended up getting a lift with a Canadian called Ben who had a 26 year old Volvo called 'Sally Forth'. The other passengers were a French girl called Sandrine and a German called Dennis, luckily we all got along as the first ride in the car was about 10 hours long! We arrived in Coober Pedy which is one of the oddest places iv seen because a lot of the pop...