Queenstown is really picturesque, a town on a lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains, and is renowned for its thrill seeking activities. Naturally this makes it tourist heaven, it is quite busy for a country the size of England with only 4 million peeps. (and 40 million sheep fact fans). We booked to do the jet boat ride on the Shotover canyon, fantastic scenery (I must think of some other variations of that phrase as there is so much of it here). This boat go...

I knew I was going to like New Zealand when the flight attendant gave me 2 bottles of wine with my meal "in case I got thirsty". Checkied in and waited for Nick to arrive, as he was on a different flight. We got a good vibe about Christchurch straight away, despite our apartment being next to all the nightclubs!We went up the gondala for a great view of Christchurch. We booked to go swimming with dolphins in a place called Akaroa, something quite unique...

Where better place to be than Sydney for Christmas and New Year? We stayed in 5 star luxury about 30 mins outside the centre (well it is Christmas) in a place called Parramatta which apparnatly means "the place where the eels sleep". After checking the room thoroughly and finding no sign of the slippery devils, we settled in quite nicely and set off to book a Christmas Dinner-realizing on Christmas Eve we had left it a little late....however, we stumble...

To ease us gentley into a days walking we decided to visit Scenic World. Upon buying the Scenic Pass we were ushered on to the railway - which just happens to be the steepest in the world, degrees I think !!! We weren't even strapped in and got sat at the front. It was very steep but also quite short. At the bottom we did the boardwalk which decribed the mining activity in that area. Then it was back to the top on the cableway before taking the skyway (see pi...

We stayed in Hobart again but took a daytrip to Bruny Island to go on a jet boat around the south east coast. After getting there without hitting anything but seeing loads of roadkill, poor darlings, we wrapped up against the elements and climbed on board our 300 horse power boat (-I've no idea what that really means but the boys were impressed). We were expertly "driven" around the beautiful coast line, the highlights where the blowhole (very blowy...