We have now stayed 3 nights at a really nice hostel in Greymouth; we spent the first night in the car after being rained out of the tent, and the other two in the hostel.The hostel has an African/Indonesian theme (will add some pics later), with very mellow laid back music being played all day long, which is just as well as we have been stuck in for the past 2 days due to the wind and rain. We are heading across Authors pass tomorrow (Sunday 15th January), towar...

Drove down to Wellington on Saturday the 7th of January to catch ferry to the South Island.Spent a few hours wandering Wellington, then waited in the car as our ferry was not until 2:30am.Managed to get about 2 hours sleep in the car before getting on ferry, but didn't get any sleep on the ferry as they were showing films so I watched The Easter Bunny and Kunfu Panda 2.We finally got into Picton at 6am, just as it was getting light.We started to drive down the ea...