Hello again!!!! Coming toward the end of our time in the van in New Zealand!!!! Off to Fiji in a few days for our final stop in the sun before heading home!!!! The North Island is pretty much the same as the South, but a lot more populated and the buidings are bigger!!!!! Still plenty of glorious scenary too!!!! Spent a few days in Napier, before heading to Taupo and Rotarua and experiencing the Thermal Pools and volcanoes!!!!!! Next stop wa...

Since leaving Queenstown (for the third time) with an extra passenger in tow, we headed up the west coast to Milford Sound, Franz Josef, Punakaiki, Nelson and Abel Tasman, as well as many other random stops!!!! Milford Sound was really nice but soooo cloudy we couldn't see anything!!!! Franz Josef was really cool and the glacier was pretty amazing!!!! Got stuck on the beach at Punakaiki and had to get towed out by the bar man of the pub down the ro...

WOW!!!! New Zealand is soooooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! But bloody cold!!!! Been in New Zealand for nearly 2 weeks now and still can't get over how amazing it is!!!!!! The landscapes look too good to be real!!!!! Life in the van is pretty cool, but it's starting to smell of feet a bit!!!!! It's great to just drive around aimlessly with no destination in mind and end up wherever!!!!! Done a couple of 'Extreme' Sports in Queenstown too.... Bungy j...