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, '...