Kia ora, hello and welcome to our last NZ blog! We're jetting up North to Fiji tomorrow so will be saying a VERY fond farewell to this awesome country, it's treated us well! Last Monday brought our last day on the East As bus to depart back to Taupo. We sang our "East As" song composition to Pedro (remember this task he'd assigned us?) to the tune of "Hey There Delilah", detailing our escapades that we'd experienced during the last 3 days of ...

G'day! (See, can you tell I'm working on that Kiwi accent?) After a quick bus ride into the city centre yesterday morning, Steph & I decided to hit the road like proper back-packers and walk back to the house: after a good 1.5 hours, a long uphill slog and the help of two kind people, we made it eventually just before dark! Am pretty chuffed as I managed to buy a cheapie phone (my current phone is so ancient that the shop assistant in the UK actually laughe...

G'day! (See, can you tell I'm working on that Kiwi accent?) After a quick bus ride into the city centre yesterday morning, Steph & I decided to hit the road like proper back-packers and walk back to the house: after a good 1.5 hours, a long uphill slog and the help of two kind people, we made it eventually just before dark! Am pretty chuffed as I managed to buy a cheapie phone (my current phone is so ancient that the shop assistant in the UK actually laughe...

Hi everyone! This is our very first blog entry, so here we go...! We FINALLY reached New Zealand at 2pm on Saturday after around 30 hours of travelling since we left Heathrow at 10pm on Thursday. (We think it's around that many hours, it's slightly confusing to work out with all the time differences!). It was an 11 hour flight to Bangkok (the airport was like a greenhouse, couldn't wait to get out!), then another 8 hours to Sydney where we got to see the sun ...

Hi everyone! This is our very first blog entry, so here we go...! We FINALLY reached New Zealand at 2pm on Saturday after around 30 hours of travelling since we left Heathrow at 10pm on Thursday. (We think it's around that many hours, it's slightly confusing to work out with all the time differences!). It was an 11 hour flight to Bangkok (the airport was like a greenhouse, couldn't wait to get out!), then another 8 hours to Sydney where we got to see the sun ...