Monday 15th November We had a lovely lie in which was great. The weather was fab, really hot and sunny so we had lunch before getting a taxi over to the free hot springs. The hot springs are all naturally heated by volcanic rock and these particular ones are situated in a beautiful woodland park. Part of the pool was far too hot, we could barely put our toes in it, but once you got to the other side there was a waterfall which was really hot, you could sit in th...

Sunday 14th November We had to be up and out for 8am to make our way to Taupo. On route we stopped at 'Huka falls' which is very impressive but no niagra.lol. We are staying at a hostel called Urban Retreat which is really nice....we have just had dinner from the hostel chilli con carne which cost 2 quid! how good is that! we are going to a bar tonight as the lads want to watch the fight from last night! Tomorrow we are hopefully going to natural hot springs whi...

Wednesday 10th November A day of travelling! Our pass means we do a loop of the south island so we had to travel from Queenstown back to Christchurch....this was quite a long day made all the worse by the fact that the air conditioning on board did not work so we were all cooked.lol! We set off at 8am and arrived in Christchurch at about 5.30pm. We had a few stops along the way to break the journey up which was nice including stopping at a little church called t...

Friday 5th November We got picked up at 8am and headed to Queenstown. On the way we stopped at Puzzle World which was great fun although it did make a few of us feel a bit sick lol. The illusion rooms were great fun, for once I felt taller than Rob (see photo). The rest of the day consisted of travelling and doing group challenges..... no. 1 who can eat a dry weetabix the quickest, no. 2 who can suck the choc off a crunchie bar without it breaking, no. 3 moving ...

Thursday 4th November The Franz Josef Glacier! This was such a great day. We had to meet at 9 am at the Glacier meeting point to get all geared up.....hat, gloves, walking boots, cramp ons (spikes for the bottom), jacket, and waterproof pants. Once we were all dressed appropriately we had a 10 minute bus ride to the bottom of the glacier where we were then split into 4 groups of about 10 people. At the base of the glacier it was chilly but as you walked higher i...