17/04/10Steve and Kate took us out for lunch today at Sanctuary Cove (posh end of town!) for some seafood and it was amazing! I had garlic prawns with rice and they were the BEST garlic prawns I've ever had! Had a really nice afternoon, got back to Steve's and heard off Mum and Dad, apparently a volcano has errupted in Iceland and ash in the atmosphere over Europe has prevented planes from taking off, in fact all the UK airports are shut and all flights into and ...

We arrived in Brisbane around 16:30, Steve was waiting in arrivals, really good to see him again so soon! We headed to his house only stopping to pick up beer and pizza! It was so nice to get to Steve and Kate's, especially after being in the van for three weeks, they have 2 toilets and 2 showers, luxury! We eat pizza, drank beer and laughed a lot. Went to bed pretty early, got to pick up the spaceship tomorrow.16/03/10I've stopped smoking today!! Realised I'm 30...

9/03/10Back into Wellington city centre this morning, had a look around the Museum of Wellington City and Sea. The museum was over three floors and was really interesting, we learned a lot about the general history of Wellington and also about the boats and the harbour. Wellington seems to be a lovely city from what we've seen, the harbour is a really nice place to just sit and chill, especially when it's as hot as it ws today! We got back on the SH2 and began th...

4/03/10We arrived in Picton just after 07:00 and the first thing we did was find a rest stop so we could have a few more hours sleep! The sun was just coming up and we were right by a lake, the view was amazing but we couldn't keep our eyes open! A few hours later I woke up boiling to death so I went and lay on the grass by the lake. When Simon woke up we decided to head down to see the glaciers. We drove to Blenheim then west across the country on SH63 until it ...

19/02/10Arrived in New Zealand in the early hours so we rang for our pickup and waited in the rain for our taxi to arrive. Our hotel was really close to the airport so it wasn't long before we could go to sleep! In the morning we walked to the nearest bus stop and got a bus into Auckland. We booked into Scholar Apartments, very sparse but had what we needed, it seems to be full of foreign students. We dumped our stuff and had a walk around Auckland city centre, '...