Bula everyone! Welcome to our first blog on the sunny isle of FIJI! :DOur trip began slightly more eventfully as we planned; due to an accident on the highway, we ended up just missing our connecting flight from Wellington to Auckland. However, with the very generous help from our uncle, we managed to get ourselves onto the next one to Auckland in time to catch our 1pm flight to Fiji, after some big farewell hugs to the Laws. We were going to miss their gre...

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 ...

Kia ora from the East As! Em and I are currently in the most Eastern reach of NZ, the real rural outback - "chilled as"! After our stay in Waitomo, we headed on down to Taupo, stopping at a pretty obscure angora rabbit shearing place where we watched a huge white fluffball of a rabbit get stretched out on a rack to be shaved bald! It may seem slightly cruel but apparently they would die from overheating if they didn't have their half-yearly haircut... ...

Hello hello helloooo - it's Em here - I hope you are all well! :) On Monday 21st, Steph & I were gutted to leave Juliet, Paul, Ethan and Bryoni. Not only did Jude & Paul insist that we took some more food with us, but they gave us water bottles with really sweet messages on them, and even invited us to go with them on their holiday to Queenstown on Thursday if we ever got stuck: I, typically, was rather emotional last night as a result of their overwhelm...

Hello from the big NZ city of Auckland! Here's the next installment of our tales from another land, so I shall carry on from where Em left off a few days ago... On the 15th June, we woke up bright and early to catch the bus from Paihia to take us on a day trip up to Cape Reinga, the most Northerly reach of New Zealand. But this wasn't any ordinary bus, not our usual Kiwi Experience coach. This was a special one, a bumper macho designed to drive along sand to tak...