Just a quick one! The wedding didn't happen. Our transport was pronounced dead before we even left Wellington so there was no way of getting up to the Bay of Plenty. Instead we went and watched England get stuffed by the Kiwis at the cricket. A good day out and not bad for your first cricket match but England were hopeless and still are! After a couple of days in Wellington sponging on some free accommodation from my cousin we headed north to Taupo where we ha...

Don't worry folks, I'm still alive...just. What a stupid thing to do, chuck yourself off a perfectly good platform into a massive canyon. Good fun though! Anyway, Queenstown, if you have a massive wallet and infinite funds you might last a week? With every activity under the sun, all completely stupid and highly dangerous with loads of waiver forms saying what happens if they kill you etc... Queenstown is the place in the South Island where everything happens. We...

Sorry not written for a while, I am just sitting in a hostel in Queenstown and it's been an absolute mission to sit down for more than 10 mins and write something down. We landed in Christchurch at about midnight on last Wednesday and stayed in the centre of Christchurch for two nights. Christchurch is the closest you could get to an English town, I say town because its not very big at all. We decided to wonder around and see what there is to do - turns out not m...

How goes it everyone? I am just sitting in Sydney airport waiting to depart to Christchurch NZ for a 5 week tour of the North and South Islands. In the last couple of days we have been in Coogee which is a small seaside suburb which is slightly more quiet than Manly with a smaller beach and less surf. We came in the vein attempt that Liam wouldn't get dragged out by the surf. The Weather was absolutely georgous in Coogee, hitting about 32 in the middle of the day...

We landed in Sydney at 7:30am last Sunday (13th) to a nice blistering (in the case of Liam's neck) 27 degrees.After checking into the hotel we headed to Circular Quay (the main Sydney Harbor) as all tourists do on their first day in Sydney and see the Opera House and The Harbor Bridge. Amazing place! It now started to sink in how far away we were, about a 26 hour flight with 11 hours time difference - we were nakered! We then decided to try and head to Bondi bea...