In light of my money, I decided to spend it today. I did indeed buy a ticket to the rugby match tomorrow (NB: i was totally wrong about the horizontal bungy. Its a contest where you get a bungy cord tied around you, and have to run towards a drink and then drink it fast to win. Oops!) I also decided to do a jetboating ride! The girl i talked to ...

Fantastic trip down from Fox Glacier to Queenstown. Down the Haast pass one of the best drives I've done. Quite long but passed really quickly. Mountains lakes rivers.... and Puzzle World. This is just outside Wanaka where we stopped for lunch. Room after room of optical illusions. I loved it. They mess were your perspective to the extent that y...

We get picked up for our Lord of the Rings tour and only have one other person on the tour which is great. We're taken to Deer Heights which was filmed on for all 3 films and is owned by a farmer who now charges for the privilege. The guide goes through different scenes and how they were shot taking us to the exact spots and showing how they loo...

what a beautiful part of the world. this is where they filmed most of the Lord of the Rings, and also where Al had his first horse trek!!! now have very sore bums! we also seem to have adopted a cheeky puss cat who loves our van, and we have knicknamed Mr Jinx from Meet the Parents film - you'll see why! Once back in Queenstown we hit the minus ...

After being chased out of Wanaka by Ray the agressive parking attandent, we luckly arrived in Queenstown just in time for a long period of beautifuly hot weather. We have been here a few days now and have done some great walking and biking. So far we have resisted the temptation to throw ourselves off a bridge attached to a piece of elastic! Bik...

Queenstown was wicked, we've spent 5 days here doing lots, drinking lots, playing LOADS of pool and generally having a good time. Can't spend too long here though as it eats your money really quick. We booked into the Southern Laughter hostel, which is quite cheap for the room that we have. It's pretty noisy though but we do have a telly in our ...

We got to Queenstown and it was raining as usual so we had a quick look around then found a campsite. As we loved luging so much in Roturua we decided to go again on the Queenstown luges. By this point we really did feel like pro's especially compared to all the other people who we kept on overtaking... we got a few dissaproving looks but well, ...

Late last night, the girls in the campervan next to us arrived home from a night of alcoholic splendor and treated our motor park to a karaoke tribute to the Lion King's "Hakuna Matata." I don't know what kind of stereo system they got hooked up in their campervan, but it had some serious bass. Needless to say, many of the older set were none to...

Another unbelievable thing happened today. It was another blissful night off work and I'd not long arrived at the Pig for a few swift ones and a dabble on the Karaoke. I was stood at the bar yapping to young Aaron when a big Geordie fella came over from a nearby table and pointed out a twenty dollar note that had inadvertently dropped from my po...

Met up with my friend in Queenstown (Pippa). Stayed a few nights with her. Went on the Shotover jet - a high speed jet boat through the canyons!!! Walked up a very steep hill to watch the bungy jumps - 2 scared to do one meself!!!