New Zealand part 3 - The South Island & The Bay of Islands Ok, so I left you in Wellington - a very nice cosmopolitan city with a full on awesome museum. We journeyed across the cook strait to to Picton in the South Island. We spent a night here, and entertained ourselves with the hilariously slow internet in a video store (letters appearing on the screen a good few minutes after they were typed in) and the next morning a really nice walk with beautiful view...

New Zealand 2 - Taupo, Napier & Wellington Taupo We travelled from Rotorua to Taupo on our now customary form of transport - the good old intercity bus! Once we arrived in Taupo we went up to some hotspringsjust in a river - it was soo cool! A series of pools spilling into a river were spewing out boiling water - sitting in it was just like being in a bath but in such a beautiful location! very chilled out! The next day, Nisha and I had arranged to do the ...

New Zealand 2 - Taupo, Napier & Wellington Taupo We travelled from Rotorua to Taupo on our now customary form of transport - the good old intercity bus! Once we arrived in Taupo we went up to some hotspringsjust in a river - it was soo cool! A series of pools spilling into a river were spewing out boiling water - sitting in it was just like being in a bath but in such a beautiful location! very chilled out! The next day, Nisha and I had arranged to do the ...

New Zealand 1 - Auckland & Rotorua Hey everyone, as promised, on with the story! So I found Alex and Nisha at Santiago aiport in Chile, and was a little disappointed with their lack of enthusiasm for seeing me after i'd trudged around the airport looking for them... that is until I realised they were both horrifically hungover! The flight was reasonably painless, was very pleasing to have little digital things in the back of the seat in front - i managed ...