Arrived into Christchurch on the 20th July. Me and Sophie had booked to do the Kiwi Experience bus, which will take us around both the North and the South Islands, stopping at all the good places. Its really cool as all the drivers are friendly and get to meet aload of people of the bus, and every thing is organised for you! Only spent an afternoon in christchurch and then next morning we joined the bus and drove to Westport. Along the way we stopped at a ...

29 June 2006 I arrived in Townsville and had to take a ferry over to Magnetic Island. Was meant to be simple but I spent ages waiting waiting for Lynn who I was travelling with, then her bus dropped her at a different place to mine, then had to walk with my bag, which I am so not good at to the bus stop and get a bus to the ferry port. By the time I finally got to the ferry port Lynn had been waiting for 3 hours! Got to the hostel and this is where I ...

I stayed in Melbourne for 5 days in a hostel called the Ritz in St Kilda. In 5 days I only really done 2 things apart from shopping for walm clothes for New Zealand. But they were defo the best 2 things. I went to Ramsey Street, it was so so cool. Felt so strange to actually be standing on the street that I have seen on TV for so long! It looks excatly the same apart from a few things, like its tiny, really really small only like 5 houses on the street a...

Is was the first time I actually knew I was in Australia. The East coast was wicked, but you caould actually be anywhere hot, and most the people you met arent Australian!! As I was flying in I looked out the plane window and all I could see what red! I got picked up from the airport by the bus of a camping tour I had arranged to do. We drove from the airport straight to Ayers Rock which was only about 15 mins away. It was so weird to actually b seein...

The first night we got to Cairns England were playing, so went to watch them lose and spent the next day regretting it! I spent the next day just sunbathing by the pool at the hostel all day. The next day thou we were booked on a Trib up to Cape Tribulation for a couple of days. On our way up we stopped ina place called Port Douglas and had a guided walk through the rainforest at mossan Gourge telling us all about the different plants and stuff. Then we wen...