Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park & Marlborough Sounds 8th May to 14th May 2006 It's a dejected Stu & Amy who check out of the Motel on a Monday morning after Tottenham's failure to clinch 4th place in the league. The Lindauers Sparkling Rose remains on ice. We find it difficult to believe that the players can come down with a spot of delhi belly in a London Hotel when we have been working our way around numerous dodgy countries and have not had a sniff of...

The 'Wild' West coast. 6th May to 7th May 2006. We covered the towns of Hokitika, Westport and Greytown very quickly over the next few days in a desperate race to get to Nelson in time for the biggest footy game of the season Spurs vs West Ham (what do you mean you get the impression that we are just filling in time between footy games). It has to be said that these towns are largely forgettable with little in the way of character or interest. ...

Franz Josef (FJ) Glacier 5th May 2006 It's a pretty long drive from Wanaka to FJ and we stop in Fox Glacier on the way for a walk around Lake Murchison and some stunning views of Mounts Cook and Tasman across the most pristine of lakes (NZ is full of these mirror like lakes). After staying in possibly the dirtiest camping ground come hostel in the world we head off for one of the highlights of the tour so far, a Heli-hike up to the Franz Josef Glacie...

Queenstown + Wanaka April 30th to 3rd May 2006 Driving around the south island you get a real sense of being in the wilderness and more often than not it's a question of "where have all the people gone?" The scenery for the drive back to Queenstown is really impressive with the snow capped 'Remarkables' truly remarkable. Queenstown is not how we had envisaged it as we'd heard that it was pretty touristy. It still retains a small ski town feel to it an...

The Routeburn Track 27th April to 29th April 2006 We get up very early for the 7am bus ride to the Divide to start the Routeburn Track, all 37km (ish) of it. Our packs are weighing in at around 15kg each and the weather for the first day is overcast but not raining so we have to be thankful for that. We covered about 12km the first day with the highlight being the Erskine falls. The falls are 60m high and we get to walk right beneath them, absolutely...