We finally left New Zealand today after a great few weeks. I can honestly say that we both love New Zealand and its our favourite place so fa, but here are to good times in South America! After a long 11 hour flight we arrived in Santiago, Chile, 4 hours before we left New Zealand! The drive to the city centre was easy and it all looked quite pretty and very 1st world. A surprise really as i had psyched myself up for being somewhere much poorer. The hostel we ha...

We were definitely both sad to give the camper back but we were both looking forward to unpacking our bags for a few days somewhere which had more than a metre of space!!So with a heavy heart we dropped the Smooch off and headed back to the center of Christchurch. We stayed in the same place as before which was ok and decided to go and see a film.We saw Sweeney Todd not knowing it was musical but enjoyed it anyway.The next day was our last night in New Zealand, w...

We were now on our way back to Chirstchurch ready to return the van.We had time for one last stop though and so headed for a small coastal town called Akaroa.It was settled by the French way back and so they had done there best to take advantage of this with "originally" named restaurants and shops.Apart from the cheesy French influence it was a nice enough place to walk around with an ice cream, especially on a hot day.We ended up staying a few hours a...

We left Lake Tekapo with sometime to spare and decided to head for Mount Cook.We had seen it from the other side of the country but we wanted to see it up close!!We headed past more lakes before eventually arriving at the small township at the bottom of the mountain.We ended up going for a really cool walk which took us toward and old glacier and across two swing bridges.The views were really cool and the weather was still good.We then left for the night and ende...

We arrived in Dunedin after a realtively long drive from one side of the country to the other. We headed straight for the supermarket and then the campsite. Not much to say about the evening- just another Prison Break watched and then to bed!! Next day we were more active. We were up early and headed to the museum which was pretty cool. It had loads of information about the local area and the settlers but my favourite exhibit had to be that of Shrek the shee...