The drive to Kaikoura took a couple of hours however the coastal road had some amazing scenery and made it difficult to keep your eyes on the road at times. The ocean is the most amazing shade of blue and all around were snow capped mountains and rugged coastline for miles. At one point we pulled over to have a closer look at a seal colony who were sunning themselves on some rocks at the side of the road! When you first look at the rocks you almost don't see anyt...

So the big question mark hanging over Blenheim was how do you tour multiple vineyards, sampling copious wines when one of you always needs to drive? Our question was answered on arrival to the campsite when we spotted mountain bikes for hire! So bright and early we reported to the office and collected our bikes, helmets and wine trail map and were on our way. Now looking at the map all the vineyards appeared to be in close proximity to each other however on close...

As soon as we drive off the ferry at Picton we instantly know that we are going to love it in the south island. The first twenty minutes drive and we see barely another car and are surrounded by beautiful green countryside and mountains. The fields are full of hundreds of sheep and as its spring there are just as many lambs. One of the fields we passed actually had lambs springing about, it was the definition of spring! It was quite a long drive from the ferry to...

The town of Paekakariki is around an hour outside of Wellington and was a good place for a stopover before spending 4 nights in Wellington. We arrived at the campsite about an hour before sunset so we parked up the van and went for a walk to explore the beach and park beside the campsite. The weather still wasn't great so we didn't hang around the blustery shore for too long before heading back to the van to cook dinner.The next morning and it is the final leg of...

It was a longer drive down to Palmerston North than we had anticipated and we arrived in time to have a quick drive around the town and then go to the supermarket to get supplies for dinner. We then headed to the campsite to find it was by far the worst one we had stayed in and were quite relieved that we only paid for 1 night!The next morning and the first job of the day was to sort out our visa for Australia. It is the only place that we are visiting that you r...