Melbourne the culture city of Australia where you have four seasons in one day and everyone is happy! Well yes, yes and kinda yes. Melbourne as a city is beautiful, one side is called south bank, which is full of expensive apartments and a long wide river running through it. On the other side is the hussel and bussel of a big city without the big cityness. Day one we got off the bus trip and stumbled out into this huge station. We got out our phone and read...

Today is the day we find out if going local would pay off.... After a long drawn out process of trying to decide whether we should spend two expensive but very chilled out weeks on the island or take the Fiji bus round the main island then spend a week on the islands or do it ourselves? Well being harden travelers the option was clear DIY!!! We booked our shark diving with a backpackers option which gave us a free nights accommodation in a well known resort. We ...

Island time! We saw our taxi boat pull up and realised that all we needed to use was a train and then during our world trip travel we would have traveled every type of transport. We handed our scaled down backpacks and island supplies consisting of all the important ingredients (water and ALCOHOL) over and boarded the boat. The journey was about 45 minutes long speeding over the crystal blue waters islands surrounding us, we arrived at our island Wulu and we...

Third and final time time in Auckland but this time I was solo! Bridie and Becki dropped me off at the airport where I thought I had plenty of time to spare. I checked in to be told we would be boarding the plan in 20 minutes. I was sat in the waiting room just people watching when i saw a young lad of a different origin fiddle about with his bag then walk off. Me being me my head started to do over drive and I started clock watching waiting for a bomb to go of...

Leaving Wanaka today and heading to the adrenline junky town of Queenstown. Wondering off the beaten track allows us to have a relaxing morning, so a perfect opportunity to have a nice lay in with a good breakfast and a lovely scenic walk. Nope that wasn't going to be the case, the weather had turned sour and it was raining so our morning walk was cancelled but we did sit back and relax enjoying the view from the comfort of our hostel playing cards. On the bus a...