Today was the first lie in I've had in far too long. So naturally we took full advantage of it. Rolling out of bed around 11am we went for a group brunch at a place called Vudu, which had the best scrambled eggs and bacon I've had in a very long time - best start to the day! I then spent the rest of the day ambling around Queenstown, making numerous stops in Starbucks to write some blogs and get free wifi. Once David had arrived back from his Nevis S...

Once again we woke up far too early, in the hopes that we would get a decent breakfast before heading to Queenstown. We ended up going to a café which our bus driver had recommended, and seeing as it was before 8am, we were the only kiwi experience people who made it there - shocker. Stuffed full of scrambled eggs and bacon and still not feeling 100% we set off to puzzling world for an hour and a half of mind-numbing rooms that we were far too tired to deal wit...

Feeling a little bit rushed after our last minute decision to get the bus this morning, we left at 8am to get to our first stop, Lake Matheson, to catch the mirror reflection of Mount Cook in the lake. The hour walk in the morning was a bit much, although it was beautiful, and by the time we got back to the bus, we could tell this was going to be a very long day! We stopped a few more times during the day for scenic photos and food breaks, but all we wa...

Booking our Glacier hike for 11.40am meant a bit of a lie in for us today and we even had time to go to the bakery for breakfast! Success. We went to the Glacier Guide office to get checked in and fill out the forms, only to find in the small print that it said they were not liable if we ended up getting stuck on the glacier for the night. Good to know. So with that bit of comforting information, we got fully suited and booted and then went to get a helic...

The morning was one of regrets and hangovers. With some pancakes and bacon from the hostel to wash down the remnants of alcohol from the night before. Deciding we all looked a bit too fragile today, our driver didn't make us do the 1 hour walk in Okarito and instead got us to Franz Josef a bit earlier so that we could check in at the Glacier Guide office for our activities tomorrow. We are all a bit worried as the weather today was awful so we aren't sure if...