Catherine and I had to check out of our rooms by 10am so that we could move into another to share room together so I had to wake up after only a few hours sleep as I had gone to bed at 4:30am. The other room wouldn't be available till 1pm so I put my things in storage and waited for Catherine. When she arrived at the reception area we bumped into Huw and all headed out for breakfast. We grabbed some pastries from Fergbakery and went and sat down by the lake. We...

Catherine and I had our room to ourselves so we had a really good night's sleep in our cosy room. At 10am we left the camp and we stopped briefly at the mirror lakes but unfortunately the weather meant that we couldn't see our reflection as it was too overcast. At lunchtime we stopped at Te Anau again and went to a cafe for a big breakfast of two eggs, two sausages, hash brown and beas on toast - yum! We then had a two hour journey back to Queenstown. When we go...

We left the hostel at 9:30am to head to Milford Sounds. We stopped at Te Anou, a small lakeside resort for lunch, sitting out overlooking the lake, and then had a 2 hour journey to Milford. The scenery was amazing as you could see the snow-capped mountains and lakes the whole way. We stopped off a couple of times for photo's. At one stop we jumped off whilst the lights were red as we had to wait to go through a really long tunnel as it was single laned and the...

4th Dec: Catherine and I had to get up at 6:30am after only a few hours sleep. We then waited outside the hostel to be collected to do the southern loop of the south island. The bus was completely full so I sat next to Huw. Also on the bus was the Englis group that had got on our bus at Abel Tasman and also the lovely Scottish couple Johnny and Kalda who I met in Greymouth. We stopped at Bluff to pay for our Milford Sound Cruise trip that we were going on ...

We returned to the cafe this morning to write our travel diaries and then we went to Puzzling World, which has illusion rooms and a maze. The illusion rooms were really good - there were hollograms where the heads follow you as you walk around the room, a room that when you walk through one door it makes you appear really big and then the other side of the room makes you feel really small. There was also another room where everything is on an angle and seems to g...