Hi, It is our last day in NZ today, we will be sad to leave as we have had such an amazing time. However, we cant really be too sad as we are moving on to Australia this afternoon - am really excited!!! We have spent the last few days in Christchurch which has been nice. We had two sad goodbyes though as we had to say goodbye to travel buddy Loz on Saturday and to our faithful car on Sunday - two cruel blows!! We all felt sad when Loz went as he is a li...

Hey, We are on the final leg of our New Zealand trip now on our way back up to Christchurch. We had a brilliant few days in Queenstown which is absolutely beautiful and we are now in Dunedin. Dunedin is the second biggest city in the South Island which isn't really saying much but after the places we have been to it seems like an absolute metropolis! I feel like a bit of a traitor today because despite living in Birmingham for 4 years I never visit...

Hi, We are now in Queenstown which is a really fun town, it is also really big compared to the little places we have been staying recently. Today Nik, Caroline and Loz did a sky dive in Wanaka, I chickened out but majorly regretted it afterwards when they were raving about it. Aparently it was amazing and it was a really gorgeous day so they got beautiful views of the snow capped mountains and the lakes. I think they are all in a state of shock that the...

Hi, We are now in Wanaka on the West coast of NZ. It is a lovely town just on a lake and is really beautiful and large by NZ standards. We have been to see the Fox and Franz Josef Glacier which was really fun. At Franz Josef we did a glacier hike which was really cool. We got a jazzy outfit that consisted of overtrousers, massive jacket, a useless pair of gloves and some fat boots with ice talons. It was a little bit surreal to be climbing up a glacier ...

Hey all, Still having an absolutely amazing time in NZ. On Tuesday I did the one thing i have always wanted to do which is swim with dolphins and it was brilliant!! We decided to go on the 5.30 in the morn trip as we were told it was the best time so we were slightly bleary eyed! but once we saw the beauty that was ourselves in full wetsuits including head wetsuit we were wide awake!! We were really lucky and it was an absolutely gorgeous morning and as we...