One of our proudest purchases of the whole trip so far was made in Manapouri; a fishing rod. Admittedly we only caught rocks and seaweed for a while before finally I managed to catch a tasty trout. Despite its rather undignified death by Sam (the details will not be discussed here), we all agreed it was one of the best things we had eaten all holiday. After fishing we said goodbye to Manapouri and drove north to Te Anau where we stopped off to fill up on petrol ...

We arrived into Christchurch after a stupidly scenic flight over the country. We were staying with friends of Pip's family, Wendy worked with Jenny in Reading. Driving through Christchurch was a shock, the earthquakes that beseiged the city still leave the place in tatters. The following morning we went to get our campervan, who we named Jenny, she is magnificent! Any doubts we previously had about size and space were quickly doused when we saw her. We headed t...

Australia was a challange. We arrived at 0000 and decided just to crash at the airport, obviously this meant a bad nights sleep for all except for Luke who appears to be the group sloth. We didn't really have much of a plan which was a mistake. At 0800 Tom and Pip lerft to go see a few old friends down in the Gold Coast area, it was weird seeing them go and I think us other three were all jealous of the fact that they had a plan. Us three just slumped around i...

Now we are approaching our last night in Singapore we have begun to see past the sweat and the grease that we first saw. We have all been pleasantly surprised by the food ($4 for a meal!), the hostel and Singapore in general. On the 19th we woke up early due to jet lag and intense humidity. Surprisingly it rained most of the day, but we still stuck to our original plan. We went to 'Wild Wild Wet'; a water park which we found to be completely deserted. However, w...

We are sweating so much it is nuts. Arrived in Singapore after two flights of average quality. Pip lucked out with seats, so chances are he will have a dreadful time on the next few. Tom is obviously nuts, and as I am writing this is trying to persuade one of us to go check out the place opposite us, that I highly suspect to be a brothel, or a womans club, but they don't really exist do they? Sam has been embarrasing us all by wearing his go pro around airports, ...