Didn't do much at all in Greymouth this morning, apart from upload photos and update my blog (as you may have seen!) Oh well, it had to be done I guess and I had also paid for wireless access which I could only use at Noah's Ark so I wanted to make sure that I used it up!! Got to Fox Glacier without any hassle but met some people who had been on the Tranz Alpine train from Greymouth to Christchurch (and you can go the other way) and I really wish that I'd gone ...

Bus driver this morning sounded like an amateur disc jockey - it was hilarious!! 130km to Greymouth - about 6 hours - groan. After this bus, I've still got about 4 bus journeys to go!! I already think I never want to travel on another bus again, so thank god I'm travelling around the East Coast of Oz by train! Saw the Pancake Rocks on the way to Greymouth which was really cool. The rocks aren't round like pancakes (as one girl obviously thought as I heard he...

Getting out of bed when it's dark is too hard!! Any my bed was so nice and warm! Met Jimmy who's the owner / manager of the place, and he seems really nice. Got picked up by the coach a little late as well, but it gave me time to read the little sign by the cottage which told me that Shortbread Cottage is an heritage cottage, built in the early 1900s. Elliot Street, which is the corner of Shortbread is also a heritage street, which is cool. I like staying in...

Had a lovely morning and afternoon in Picton (though it's getting more difficult to remember where I am now, let alone what day it is!! The amount of times I've started typing the wrong place....). I had a nice walk through the town centre to the harbour (and bought some New Zealand greenstone souvenirs, though it is actually jade). Also had an interesting phone call with my mum, groan, and now I'm stressing about what on earth I'm doing on the other side of t...

Thought that I would get up early today to go and see the rest of the museum and then go and have a look at the start of the carnival. That didn't happen as I really just wanted to have a lie in! It was a bit of a muggy night, so I don't think I slept too well. However, it did mean that the sun was shining today, so that was good. I was told that the weather forecast for the whole weekend was meant to be rain, so it could have been awful weather for the carn...