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'...

Today we got back onto the tram and went to the Etihad Stadium. We had a look around then went to Southbank and had a walk along the river. Then we went to the Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens and visited Captain Cooks Cottage. We have learnt a lot about Capt Cook on various trips we have been on so wanted to see where he lived. As it was our last night in Oz so I treated Scott and I to a Nandos. We had one in Sydney and it was beautiful so fancied another one. We h...

G'Day from Melbourne, Victoria. We took the Greyhound coach from Sydney to Melbourne which took 12 hours, and it was the last Greyhound coach we would take. Being overnight again we slept for most of it and it went really quickly. Also we had seats at the front which had extra leg room. Good for Scott! When we got to Melbourne we walked to our hotel. 30 minutes with a backpack uphill was a killer! We then went for a walk around the nearby shops and got our dinner...