Right then, journal time! This will be an update with a difference though as for the first time since we left England we haven't done anything particularly exciting, but its actually been quite nice. We're still in the same hostel and despite being in a 6 bed dorm we've had the room to ourselves for the past 6 nights. We think it may have been a reward for having to put up with 3 very noisy, slightly stinky, Japanese rappers for the first few nights. Unfortunatel...

G'day from Australia everybody!!! We arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday and we love it here. The city is fantastic, theres more shops than you can shake a stick at so Gems in heaven and the sun is shining so i'm happy. We can't believe advent has started, it was 29 degrees here yesterday and thats just not very Christmassey is it?! We've met a great crowd of people in our hostel and we've had a couple of good nights out, in fact I had a very successful night out on ...

Hello for the final time from New Zealand. Cant believe we've been here for a month already! We're in Christchurch now and the weather is boiling hot, its a great little city. Theres loads of fairly untalented street performers everywhere that have kept us amused. After visiting every single hair salon in Christchurch Gem finally picked one to get her hair done so thats where she is now, I had the choice between sitting in the salon reading womens magazin...

We survived!!!! We have just had the most unbelievable few days of our lives. Lets start with the ice climbing...The weather thankfully cleared up which meant we could actually see where we were going and the glacier was breathtaking. No one likes a geek but its been estimated that the glacier is made up of around 14 million tonnes of ice which is constantly moving forwards, wow!!!! The day started with a pretty steep climb through the rainforest (Fox glacier is ...

Hello again, just thought i'd post a quick message to let you know what we're up to. After our death defying caving trip we drove up to a place called Pancake Rocks which we were told was amazing and we couldnt travel the West Coast without seeing it. They even looked good in the leaflet, loads of big weird rocks and blow holes shooting water into the air. However when we got there the tide was out and it just looked like a big pile of rocks, rubbish. We hung aro...