Kia Ora (hello in Maori)! Well since i last wrote i managed to keep myself very busy! On Friday i went on my free tour of the city which was really good. We went to a lot of places that i had looked at in my guide and would liked to have visited but knew i would never be ablet o do so that was cool. we saw the sky tower, when to some maori sites and went on the harbour bridge, which you usually have to pay to get on but we got on for free, and one of the girls i...

Hiya, eh! (people say eh, at the end of everything), Well after my last blog entry the next day i went skiing in queenstown, which was one of the best expereicnes i have had on my trip so far. all my life i have maintained that i never thought i would like skiing, but on this trip i came round to the idea a bit, and i can safely say that i loved it! i have never done a sport and fallen in love with it so instantly, i can tell it is something i am going to be in...

Hi, sorry it has been so long since i last wrote, i have been mostly in the middle of nowhere with no reception and no internet. I actually just spent over half an hour typing this only for me to some how accidentally delete what i had just written, so i have going to have to try and write all this quickly again.... On Monday Sam and I were joined by a group of people in the bus who had come down from the north isalnd. the first thing we did was go to a winery, ...

Hello, So i spent my last couple of days in Christchurch just milling about, doing the usual free stuff, the art galleries and the botanical gardens etc. i met a really nice girl in my dorm, and we ended up going out for a meal together, although she left the next day, which is one of the annoying things about travelling. you finally meet someone you could really get on with but you are different scheduels so endup going seperate ways. I got on the bus that i ...

Hey, So yesterday i flew into new zealand, and it was such a beautiful flight in. as you fly in you fly over the southern alps, and it is just breathtaking. I am staying in a really nice hostel, it is the nicest hostel i have stayed in so far, really really clean and quite homely. the actually clean under the beds, can you imagine?! I spent yesterday just exploiring christchurch, which is a really nice little city. i would say that new zealand is a cross betwee...