Our final night in a New Zealand hostel! It wasn’t so bad, we had to tip toe around a little this morning to get ready but we were good to go for the last kiwi bus at 8.50am. My back is bloody sore today and our thighs are aching too. Need to try and keep moving and stretch a lot today on that bus, can’t imagine it’s going to be full. The bus wasn’t a kiwi bus it was a random coach but with a kiwi experience driver and just as we expected the bus was qu...

Out of Paihia and back down to Auckland today. Everything was pretty much packed in the very strange looking shapes the rucksacks have got in and Ellie let me sleep in! (She was just too scared to poke me or tug on my blanket in case I growled from under my cocoon). I like to get the fluffy blanket on me and tuck it up under the toes and then the fluffy duvet over the top of me again. It’s heaven, I’m so cosy under it all! No wonder over been sleeping well, E...

Ellie’s alarm didnt go off at 8.30 but instead she turned it off in her sleep this morning and then punched me in the arm to wake me up from my blissfully deep sleep under that lovely big fluffy duvet at 9.20am. Ten minutes until breakfast was due to be served! Greeeeeat. I love wake up calls like that.... (she’s not in charge of the alarm tomorrow). Such a great night sleep last night, it was so bizzare going to sleep with not one sound in the background. ...

s*** flight with Virgin Australia, five and half hour flight with no entertainment and only one complimentary drink with our little meal and the chicken was awful. Big expectations met by disappointment... It was absolutely pissing it down in Brisbane, I mean it was bouncing off the floor! Landing was bad enough in it god knows what take off will be like! We had coffee sachets and a tea bag in our bag and found some hot water so a free cuppa for the early morn...