With the adventure capital behind us we then headed to the Scotland of New Zealand, Dunedin. When we arrived at our hostel we both realised our mistake, we had rushed our transport decision and forgot to communicate with each other, as we should have stayed longer in Queenstown. Oh well determined not to let the slight mishaps keep us down we explored the city. We only had two options of tours here, one was a wildlife tour and the other was a Cadbury factory to...

Today we are driving to a place called Greymouth, we are both a little annoyed by this as we have to stop here but we want to head straight to Franz Joesph where Bridie and Mike are heading too. We sit and consider several options but decide we have to go with the Magic bus flow.  We stop again at many different destinations and luckliy for us the weather is nice and sunny and we get to really enjoy the scenary. Our final stop before Greymouth is to an area cal...

Today's the day we return back to traveling life, saying goodbye to our adopted Kiwi family and friends but

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...