South Island Part 2 So after our wild night in Barry town, dressed like idiots, it was a fairly early start off to Franz Joseph. Franz Joseph is famous for it's glacier. Apparently one of the only glaciers sounded by rainforest in the world (at least I think that's what they said). So as we arrived into the town we stopped by the glacier booking place to book our trip for the day after. here we were informed that the weather was going to be really bad the next d...

South island part 1 Hi everyone. So I am finally going to tell you about the amazing time I had in the south island. My trip started with a celebration at the base backpacker bar (Christchurch) for my birthday. It's always good to celebrate your birthday in 2 different counrtries I think. The bar staff found out it was my birthday and gave me loads of free stuff which was cool. They also made everyone in the bar sing to me by promising them a free shot. Very em...

Hi everyone. I've lied on this blog I'm afraid. The location says I'm in Melbourne when I'm actually in Kaikoura, New Zealand. It's been so long since I updated this I haven't even finished Australia yet, so sorry about that! I always seem to start with something about the long and boring bus journey to a place so why change now. It was 14 hours from Byron Bay to Sydney and it seemed to go on forever! I should be used to it now, but I had a Gernman couple sat be...

Hey everyone, hope you're all really well. I left the last blog as we were heading to Agnes Water. Before we left airlie beach we had a a quick walk down to where Paul used to work. We were very disappointed to find that the bar is now used as fridge and tv storage. Very disappointing, but we got some pictures outside of it non the less. When we arrived at Agnes Water bus station we could see a petrol station and supermarket. We were soon to discover that that ...

Hi Sharps fans! So we are well into our Australian adventure now. There's lots to tell you - I hope you don't get too bored! We landed into sydney at about 7am from bangkok. We stepped outside and it was absolutely heaven. It was 10 degrees c and i hadnt felt so fresh in 2 months, it was amazing. However as we had no warm clothes whatsoever we were glad to be getting our connecting flight up to Cairns where the temp was much more tropical and what we've become ...