Sometimes the best decisions are the most random ones. This whole week started over a drunken meet up in Wellington. It's strange what you agree to after a few beers. This time I agreed to a road trip with some fellow travellers up the North Island. Only yesterday though did I think how weird it is that you agree to spend a week with people you barely know but travelling instills weird things to you and as a friend said to me before I left the UK, "Say yes t...

"Wanaka is awesome and I could really see myself staying here forever". Man these immortal words of fantasy almost turned into reality when I sudddenly realised that beautiful as it is, it's almost impossible to leave the place due to heavily booked out buses. True there are worse places to be stuck in the world but for a bloke with limited time I wanted to get out as soon as. So after staying another 3 days and meeting a few randoms along the way I was...

Well as per usual, the plan of leaving Australia in good time faltered at the last minute. Why is it that several glasses of wine makes you believe that you can wake up at 6 in the morning and pack your bag with enough time to get the bus? Every time it happens but I never learn. Still luckily for me the bus from Kings Cross to Sydney was a little late and I made it to the Airport on time and caught my flight to Christchurch. So country number 11.....what's it al...

Australia, the land down under. Where women glow and men blunder. So said the lyrical maestros of men at work. Mind you they also advocated Vegemite sandwiches, something I object to strongly but this is besides the point. Again I'm actually writing this from Christchurch in New Zealand having left blooging to the last minute in Oz and running out of time to do it. Still what can I tell you about this place in the 2 weeks that I saw it? What I can say is that it ...