Fiji: desert island, hammock, cool drinks, sunburn, fire-dancing, good food, snorkeling, Cava, sunsets, American teenagers, sea snakes, palm tree, friendly locals. brilliant.

Run out of time in Rotorua but enjoyed every minute of it. I stayed in a great hostel (Funky Green Voyager) and met a load of brilliant people, including one Brazillian who may come and visit me at Uni. Its a wierd town Rotorua, but in a good way. Like i said before the entire town smeels of sulphur but the good thing about that is there as thermal pools and boiling mud EVERYWHERE. The best place i saw thermal activity was at Te Puia (local tourist atraction) wh...

Left Wellington a few days ago after a great stay with Charlie and have a few nights to remember. I ended up booking the Kiwi Experience bus to Auckland and left early (a bit too early at 7:45am) up to Taupo. Had a great bus ride there with the driver pointing out a few interesting sites on the way, on the bus also met anice guy going to Glasgow Uni next year and so may see him again in a few months. In Taupo had a wander round and went to see the local waterfal...

Sanday (pictured above) has gone back home. We had a great last few days in the van and the trip up to Wellington afterwards was good too. After having a look at the glaciers on the west coast we headed East to Christchurch again to hand back the van, this meant going through Arthur's Pass which (again) was brilliantly beatutiful. The only slight downer on the way back was our money situation (bloody Queenstown) and the damage to our van, a dent on the back and a...

Sice the last time this was updated Sanday and i have done a huge amount. When we arrived in Queenstown we asked about the road South to Milford Sound and found that with chains we could get there so we set off down to have a look. The drive down was brilliant as it was through mountains and lakes all the way and a decent amount of the time the road was iced/snowed over. In Milford we decided to take a long boat ride out down the water to the sea which was a grea...