Day 144 - Queenstown, South Island - Wednesday 7th March 2012 After waking it seems that it was me that snored not Danny?! I pretty sure that they were winding me up but we had drunk quite a lot so maybe?! After we all showered and cleaned up we headed into Queenstown for a walk around. This is the first time since we have been in NZ that we have seen a town that is busy and very modern (Christchurch doesn't count as we couldn't get into the centre). We stopped...

Day 141, 143 - Wanaka, South Island - Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th March 2012 We woke up to the sight of Mt Cook out of our window. It was so cold that the van had completely steamed up and so we were eager to get our breakfast and tea on the go to warm ourselves up a bit! With breakie done we started our drive to our next destination - Wanaka. A few hours in and we arrived in Wanaka - it's a really nice little town and there's people and shops!! Something we haven...

Day 140 - Aoraki / Mount Cook national park, South Island - Sunday 4th March 2012 We woke to the sound of tourist's feet around the van snapping the view of Mt Cook. With our breakfast on the bench in view of the mountains and lake done, we started our drive to Aoraki and the Mt Cook national park. The drive was only a couple of hours and within an hour the snow-capped mountains completely dominated the scenery - definitely one of the most amazing drives we've e...

Day 139 - Lake Tekapo & Lake Pukai, South Island - Saturday 3rd March 2012 Yep, believe it or not it's raining again! Ok it's not torrential, we knew it would be colder than Australia but we thought it would be sunny at least! We had a quick wash and brushed our teeth in the campsites bathroom but no shower; both Soph and I (out of principle) will not pay an extra $4 for a shower when we have just paid $40 to rent a 8ft by 4ft patch of concrete!! We checked...

Day 137, 138 - Akaroa, South Island - Thursday 1st, Friday 2nd March 2012 We woke up knackered as we'd hardly slept a wink in the night due to a massive storm with heavy rain and what felt like gale force winds. I woke up several times thinking the van was going to topple over!! We looked out the camper window to see mist, rain and fog - brilliant! It's colder than England!! With the cold weather upon us we decided to treat ourselves to a hot breakfast out and ...