hi all! Sorry it has been a while! I arrived in coolangatta yesterday at midday (after 26hours on the road.) It's been great to see inspector gadget (mum) and neighbourhood watch (dad). Paul and gem's wedding in wonga wetlands, albury was so nice. It was over 40 degrees so we had to take umbrellas to shelter from the heat! Paul and gem made up their own vows. paul managed to get some rock climbing references in his vows ( would you expect anything else ...

ONE NIGHT, ONE NIGHT,MMMMMMM ONE NIGHT IN HEAVEN (?) M PEOPLE More like a night of hell!! I checked out my hostel at 9.30 am yesterday , went to the airport at 4pm and stayed at the airport all night. the shuttle bus driver told me to go up to the domestic lounge as it has comfy sofas and right enough there was a selection of comfy leather slouchy sofas (even if they were strategically placed next to the kiddys area - grr). I finished my second b...

hi all, sorry for the very brief update yesteday - i had to go and be sick. I think it might have had something to do with the manky hostel kitchen in queenstown or maybe it was being on the bus all day that did it. Anyways, still not feeling the best today so i think im going to rest. New zealand has been one of the highlights of my trip. It wasn't what i thought it was going to be like at all, it is nothing like australia. It kind of reminds me of scotlan...

hi all, just a quick note to say im back in christ church now. We left queenstown at 8am and got in at 6 so all in all it has been a very long day! speak tomorrow, smithers

hi all,Just a quick update. i have been in queenstown for the past few days. Friday night we went out to some of the nightspots and drank cocktails out of teapots (?!). Saturday i went down to the lake and read my book until the entire queenstown population of ants decided they wanted a read too! Today i went a trip to milford sound. We left extremely early this morning as it is a 5hour journey there and another 5 hours back. The weather was awful, rainy and cold...