We have one more day left in New Zealand then we fly to Fiji on Sunday. I must say I am looking forward to a bit of sun! It has been fairly good weather here but its autumn now so temperatures only get up to about 18c. We went to Hanmer Springs today to visit the thermal hot pools. It was lovely and relaxing, some were really hot, about 42c. We have done some really good tours here and seen as much as we could of the South Island. We would say the best thing NZ...

Today we went on our Lord of The Rings tour, we had been told that even if you were not a huge LOTR fan [Kelly] you would still enjoy this tour and appreciate the scenery of the southern alp snow mountains, and they were right. we got picked up at 9 this morning by our tour guide Rex and immediately headed for the southern alps, it was a 3 hour drive right into the mountains and the scenery was spectacular. Massive green forests with snow topped mountains in the ...

Sorry we havent updated for a while, Yesterday we went to the International Antarctic centre, its 15mins outside of the city centre and we got picked up by the Penguin Express. When we arrived we both brought the extreme pass which entitled you to do every activity inside the centre, the first show we watched was the penguin feeding, shortly after that we had a Hagglund ride, a Hagglund is a swedish built off roader, its used by he Swedish army and its one of the...

We had two flights to take us from Australia to Christchurch. The first from Melbourne to Sydney was 1 1/2 long and we even got continental breakfast. We got there 10 mins late to Sydney and had only 50 mins to go to another terminal to get on our flight to Christchurch. It didn't help that the shuttle to the terminal took ages to come but we made the flight on the final call. There were others that had been on the same flight before that we're late so we weren'...