We left Christchurch and spent the day driving through the Banks Peninsula, which was beautiful. We arrived in a small town called Akaroa, which was a french settlement so everything was in french. We watched the sunset on the end of the pier. We stayed in the van for the first night and it was fery comfortable. The next day we drove to Lake Tekapo this took a few hours and the mountains got higher the further we went. The lake was very blue, caused by t...

We left Melbourne very early on Wednesday having to get up at 430 and our flight left at 715. We had a good flight with good movies, games and music. We landed in Christchurch about midday here, the weather was better than we thought nice and sunny and quite warm. We found a hostel to stay in and spent the afternoon walking round. On Thursday we moved hostels and went to the Car market, here we bought a Campervan, its very clean and tidy. We thought it would...

On Saturday we were very lazy and had a long lie in, didnt get up til 1.00 in the afternoon. We spent the afternoon looking round the shops. We went up the Riolta Tower to the floor 55 where there is an 360 degree observation deck to view Melbourne. This was good you could see for miles. We went for a ride around the city on the tram and visited the Market. We spent the day in Melbourne museum yeterday. There is a set from Neighbours, the Robinson...

On Wednesday we visited the famous Ramsey Street and saw all the houses. The close is alot smallewr than it looks on TV. We stood outside the houses and took photos. On the wat back into the city we went to St Kilda where the seaside is. A nice beach, where we walked along the jetty. We had a walk around the city, at the moment the International Comedy Awards are on, so we went to see Sean Lock an English comedian, he was very funny. Yesterday we woke u...

We left the Grampians and drove to the coast. We stopped at Warrnambool and then onto the Great Ocean Road. We first came to the Bay of Islands, which looked amazing. The sea has eroded the limestone and clay cliffs to form islans in the middle of the sea. Unfortunately as we left here to drive on it started to spit with rain. It continued to drizzle with rain for the rest of the day. The first rain we have seen for a while. We then stopped at Crofts...