Not the happiest moment of the trip for me when the alarm went off at 6.45am, I could have done with quite a few more hours in bed, but sadly we were being picked up by the bus at 8.00am. I reluctantly headed towards the shower and after a hot blast from that I felt slightly more human. I had breakfast and then headed back to the room for some f...

Howdy Dowdy All! Well it's been * while since I've s*t down *nd *dded *n entry to my website, but life in Windy Wellington h*s been keeping me busy! At the st*rt of Febru*ry I fin*lly m*de the bre*k *nd left tr*nquil, quiet Kinloch *nd he*ded to Welly in se*rch of work, shopping *nd * soci*l life!!! And it didn't dis*ppoint. On the recommend*tio...

After a good Christams in Carterton we headed south to Wellington. We decided to take the train and stay in a hostel.Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and is nestled at the bottom of the North Island on the coast. It is known as the windy city due to the strong sea winds. We had booked into a hostel called the Wildlife House which we foun...

The morning after our adventures on Mt Tongariro we ventured south once again, this time destination Wellington. We followed route 1 past Tongariro National Park and the spectacular volcanoes across the desert road (so called I think because it's very flat and the ground it brown - unlike the rest of New Zealand). We stopped briefly for a rest a...

The morning we left the Lochmara Lodge, many folks from the lodge joined us in a mass exodus across the Cook Strait via the Blue Bridge ferry from Picton to Wellington. None of them made the two-hour hike to get to their cars (they all had the wherewithall and money to take the lodge's ferry to Picton), but we all met at the Blue Bridge terminal...

First, I'd like to thank everyone who expressed their concerns about my diet. I have reduced my average daily peanut consumption to less than 20g per day. It's been a while since I wrote, mostly because internet is so expensive, so first I'll do a brief summary of what I've done since Tauranga. I went to a town called Rotorua, and when I arrived...

Kia Ora from New Zealand! Unfortunately for you guys, internet access has currently been rather abundant so you'll be hearing from us slightly more regularly than before. Think of it as a good thing - my updates will be shorter and it won't take you 8 hours to read them... Last time I left you we'd just left Fiji for New Zealand and I had to eat...

Wow is week 3 over already? It's flown by! The first 2 weeks were action packed and felt like 2 months, but the past week has slipped past without me even noticing. I must be getting into the swing of things! I last left you in Queenstown where I was lying on my deathbed bravely overcoming some sort of deadly virus. Something like that anyway. W...

Hello everyone. I'm now in Christchurch. I've travelled through quite a bit of this country in the week I've been here. If you're lazy and don't feel like checking a map to find where I am, then you're in luck. Travelpod is updating their maps so that they place a dot where the entry is coming from. Right now it just does capital cities. Anyway,...