After a good nights sleep we are back on the road again, another early start and another reminder why staying in a house is beautiful.  The advantage of being on the Magic bus compared to local buses are the number of senic stops you make. They don't just stop for toilet or food breaks, but this time we are stopping for a short walk into the forest along a little stream. The strange thing about this little walk is that playing in the little pools and small wate...

Whoop whoop after a month on the Gringo Magic bus we finally break the mould and head of the beaten track and stop at Wanaka. Wanaka is in the same district as Queenstown and only a few miles out but from what we have heard its like a whole other world! Wanaka is a small quite town with a few more shop and bars than Fox and Kiakora but smaller than most towns. We arrived in the afternoon after a long bus ride, we just don't have the bus ride stamina anymore! Th...

So we landed in Christchurch and this time it was us with the welcome banner. In Wellington we had picked up a massive Union Jack flag and wrote "Don't forget your roots" on it for a thank you/ bribery present from Bridie. We had to wait around the airport for a while, until Bridie finished work and collected the Ice Queen (our hire car) so we got the handy cards out. We didn't have to wait long until we got the call of "where are you?" I co...

We head further north and back to the start of our trip, Auckland! Unfortunatly we pass the same points and roads as we did leaving so nothing too exciting but gave me more time to kick my cold! We had already decided to stay in a hostel we had escaped too after our Base experience. We were checked into a smelly boys dorm!! But it was only one night! We went for a quick shop to buy some warm clothing for the South! No crazy body changes this time.  We checked ...

I guess its my turn to write a blog, now Becki has her ipod touch she had gone blog crazy! Well after Taupo we headed up to Mount Maunganui which was the last stop over before Auckland. With Becki still feeling blue (at death door with Man Flu) we chilled out at the hostel and I convinced her it would be a good idea to climb the mount to the top and watch the sun set. We started the 3km walk to the mount fully prepared with an ice cream in one hand and a can o...