Well it's been a while since I updated this blog but to update you all ill start from what we've been up to in Sydney. Wave been spending the last 4 weeks staying in a little beach town Coogee. When we arrived in Australia we stayed with Adys friend Ryan who was renting an apartment from a friend for a few weeks. Ryan had got himself a job in Bondi so we decided to wait for him to finish his job before we set off to travel up the East Coast of Australia. Sydney i...

We arrived in to Nadi airport at around 11:30pm and we were a bit knackered after the 5 hour delay. The airplane from Auckland to Nadi was a big 747 and I managed to get us some exit rows on the top floor. I ended up sitting next to a kiwi guy and we started having a chat and it turned out he was a First Officer. After a bit more talking he said he wasn't just any old First Officer he was a FO for BMI Baby out of Birmingham! I couldn't believe what a small world ...

After spending the night in Auckland we headed up to the bay of islands which is north of Auckland. We managed to get a good double room in a place called the bay adventure which had a spa and swimming pool although it was too cold to use it! We booked on a boat trip the next day which takes you on a tour around the islands and to do dolphin spotting. The boat trip took us around lots of little islands and to the hole in the rock which was basically a huge r...

From Rotorua we made our way to the famous Waitomo caves. There are more than 300 caves in the area but there are 3 in particular which are popular with the tourists and these are the glow-worm cave, Aranui cave and Ruakuri cave. The Waitomo town is tiny with just a small local shop and a pub and a few hostels and B+Bs., We stayed at the YHA in a dorm which was pretty new so was clean and tidy and we only had to share with one other person. We booked on t...

Our next destination was to Lake Taupo which is almost in the centre of the North Island and is huge! The lake was caused by a massive volcanic explosion almost 26'500 year ago and is one of the biggest explosions of all time. As you are probably gathering like us New Zealand has in the past not been the safest of places to live! We travelled to Taupo with our friends again and stayed in a nice place called the backpackers retreat. When we got there it was rain...