03/02/2010 - Luckily it wasn't a windy night in Nelson so the tent stayed put. We packed up the tent in record time and it was my turn to drive. We had heard that Abel Tasman National Park was really nice and it was only an hour and a half west of Nelson so we headed there for the morning before going to Kaikoura. The weather was really nice and we took a little walk along the seafront before we left for kaikoura. As we had gone further west it was a 5 hour drive...

02/02/2010 - It was time to leave Ian and Narelle's and head down to Wellington, the capital on New Zealand to get our ferry across to the south island. Before wse left we popped by Ians work to give him back his house key and say farewell. In his store there were two mopeds, one of them being pink and we offered him to swap the car for them lol but we thought we best return the car to my uncle. We had booked our ferry crossing for 2 o'clock so we had a few hours...

30/01/2010 - After our skydive we got in the car and headed to a place called Tongario National Park, we had heard that it was a lovely place and was where a lot of the Lord of the Rings filming was done, so we thought that we would camp over night there. We set up the sat nav and it took us two or three hours to get there.The sat nav said we had reached our destination and all that was there was one small farm house that looked like something out of a horror f...

We got a message from our friends Kim and Al telling us where they were staying in Taupo so we gave the hostel a call to try and get a room but they were fully booked so we just jumped in the car and said we'd find something when we got there. It was only a short drive from rotorua and when we arrived we went straight to the i-site where they sorted us out some accomodation with parking. We checked in then took a walk to Al and Kims hostel which was literally jus...

27/01/2010 - Before breakfast we had decided that we would stay another night in rotorua so i went down when reception opened and asked if we could stay another that way we wouldnt have to check out and check back in. We had another nicve big breakfast with all the food that linda and keith had given us, then went to the Polynesian Spa we had read about. There were 7 different hot pools ranging in temperatures between 38oC to 42oC and it was located right on the ...