Lots and Lots of snow, very cold toes, getting back on the slopes and drinking mulled wine in the middle of June!!!! we finally arrived in Qeueenstown after driving for pretty much the whole day - unfortunately it turned out I had one of those progressive hangovers so the journey had been fairly torturous for me! the town itself is incredibly cool, a proper ski resort - lots of rah types and very swanky buildings - not really an image that a big orange ca...

gondola rides, crater walks, Cecil Beaton and a helluva lot of time on the road!! Oh and the new Charlie Dimmock! so we caught the ferry down to the south island at like stupid o'clock in the morning and spent half the day crashed out in the van by the side of the road!! ah the joys of Nozmo!! finally after a few good hours of kip we set of down the eatsern coastal road towards Christchurch, after a few detours around Blenheim to get snow chains and gummie b...

what posesses a perfectly (ish) sane human being to throw themselves from a perfectly decent plane at 12,000ft? Not really sure but it was a hell of a lot of fun!!!!! so as I said, for some reason the four of us had somehow ended up booking oursleves in for a skydive!! The weather had been awful for a few days and i think most of us thought that it wouldnt be good enough to do the jump and we could use that as a get out clause without officially wussing out!...

Glaciers, yet more hardcore driving and the race back to Auckland. Plus our sad parting with Nezmo the big orange spaceship!!! after another morning driving solidly we took a little pit stop at the Franz Josef Glacier which was total awesome walked as close as we could to it and was pretty amazed by the size - felt very Lord of the Rings set-esque almost as though it wasnt really there!!! after the walk we had a yummylicous lunch or noodles mmmmm tasty and p...

taking on New zealand in a spaceship called Nezmo!!!! so after enjoying the moderate luxury of our hostel in Auckland Lu and I tramped over to meet Amber and Holly at where they were staying. However their equivalant of a treat was five star luxury suite next to auckland sky tower courtesy of Amber's dad . lush! after a fair amount of un-called for snobbery from the hotal staff we picked the girls up and headed off to collect our vehicle and home for the nex...