Ashleigh Court Motel Christchurch

... climb over the rubble to the beginning of the clean ice. This climb almost killed us as it was so steep and lets face it we are not that fit.
However soon we began walking on the ice and it was wicked. Through the top layer of white you can see down to the solid blue ice that forms the glacier. The hardest type of ice in the world (see i was listening). As you can also see we took many many many photos. It wasn't that cold and we abandoned our gloves after a while. By ...

... gradually being whittled down over the years as another on collapses, and their doesn't seem to be much religious emphasis on their name front what we read. We managed to catch them at sunset and during the daylight. The final day we drove back to Melbourne airport to catch our evening flight 1hr west to Adelaide. All along the winding ocean road we got differing spectacular views of the coastline around each bend and the misty sea air sweeping inla

... at how missions is a theme throughout the entire Bible and how God has always wanted to display Himself to every people group throughout the world. It is all about His glory filling the earth. Also, Jesus will not return until the gospel of the Kingdom is preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations (Matthew 24:14). We also looked a lot at God's covenant with Abraham (Abram at the time) in Genesis 12:1-3 where God blessed Abraham to be a ...

... was! I got outside and there was snow EVERYWHERE! It was just a blanket of snow and white for almost as far as the eye could see. The mountains, trees, grass, cars and buildings were covered in snow. That's when I realised that some poor guy had camped overnight, outside in his tent! He said he had woken up when his tent started to cave in! I was like a kid on Christmas morning, I was just so excited to see so much snow. I've been to Lapland (Rovaniemi) but I have never seen so ...

... the only one on the bus who understood why it was so funny.... So yeah, wake up in the mountains, go to Milford Sound, watch Wedding Crashers. Pretty nutty. Or as the Canadians would say: "Pretty Nutty, eh?" Back in Queenstown, the Party Capital of the Southern Hemisphere...or whatever...we met up with our Kiwi Experience friends for one last night out at the Base Hostel Bar "Altitude" (they all have such cool names ...

... interesting thing he told us was that the female Kiwi lays an egg which is 1/3 of her body weight. It is the equivalent of a human female giving birth to a 37 pound baby. The good news is that the male incubates it and takes care of the baby kiwi for a time after it is born, so the female's job is done once she lays the egg. Next, the guy doing the show brought out a Rainbow Lorikete. These are natives of Australia, and I caught a glimpse of one when I was in ...

... And surfing! and he looks back at me and the instructor (to wave, for some reason!) ..... and he's down! dunked in the drink! i suggested to Steve that waving whilst surfing is probably not a good idea, best try a "kowabunga!' or something!! So the next time he manages to stand up, he's cruising along, thinking this is great.......what now?? (we gather that the instructor didn't expect us to stand up so didn't infact tell us what to do whislt up there ...

... a big lunch so just went back to the backpackers where I finished my book and typed up this entry. I'm back into Christchurch tomorrow where I'll drop the car off and spend a couple of days shopping /chilling before my flight on Monday (Sunday evening UK time) Since leaving Queenstown it's been difficult uploading pictures so I'll put some up from my digs in Christchurch tomorrow and probably add a final entry on Sunday night with my final thoughts. It seems like ages ago that I landed ...

... started on the 5th Jan. Very nerve wracking as i know nothing of Neuroscience or surgery apart from what i learnt in Sweden 3yrs ago (which wasn't much!!). They have all been great though and i have learned so much already and actually have been working for 7 wks already!! The accent causes slight problems as they have a phone system that is computerised and it speaks "Kiwi" not Scottish (how rude!), but other than that i am settling in ...

... boat-shuttle back into town, and I decided to take a three hour drive to Queenstown with my kayaking partner, who had a car.  At that point, I was pretty tired but I still wanted to fit everything in, so the next morning I took a four hour bus ride to Mt. Cook National Park.  I hoped to camp in the backcountry and do some other hikes, but after starting out my back erupted in the sensation of pins and needles.  I had to stop and turn back.  The town is really small and the ...