What a Cool Hostel! Today i got a bike, got on a boat for an hour and then started Biking. Cool. I am in teh Marlbourough sounds, the North East tip of South Island. Given that i could not get a sea boat for love nor money, i decided to hire a mountain bike and ride teh Queen Charlotte track, 71Km of greasy mud and steep slopes. Nice. I shared t...

Entry 6 of a trip titled: Taking the long way home!

This is a story about my ongoing (mis)adventures around the world. Or, I guess to be a bit more accurate: This is the story about how after spending nearly a year in New Zealand I decided to head home. Anywho, hanging onto my innocence and travel bliss a bit more, I'm not going directly home. That would be far to easy (and boring!). Instead I'm taking the more scenic, "I have no idea where I'm going but I'm sure I'll get there.....eventually" way. Heres to hoping I don't get arrested. Or break any more bones.

Here we are in Picton, our last stop on the South Island. Tomorrow we'll cathc the ferry to Wellington and off we are to the North Island. The ferry ride is supposed to be amazing, the ferry takes you out through a bit of Malborough SOunds and out via the Cook Strait into Wellington. I am honsestly a bit scared of the ferry ride, because everyon...

Entry 9 of a trip titled: Half the world away...

We're starting off in New Zealand, travelling both islands. Then it's off to Oz. Melbourne to begin with, then heading up the East coast. From Brisbane we fly to Phuket. We're spending about 6 weeks in Thailand possibly including a week in Laos. Followed by a night in Singapore. Then to top it all of we're off to Indonesia for provisionally two weeks-hopefully three!

I'm still waiting for the physio assistant job that Tane is currently doing until his paperwork comes through and he can move into the day hospital physio role. SO! I decided late on monday evening to do a trip down here to south island rather than sit at home twidling my thumbs. Tuesday I spent an hour booking things and early wed I took a flig...

Well Last stop for me in the south island was Picton. It was still ******* it down when i arrived there so thought i may as well check out the ferry times and prices.. So found meself a bit of a deal for a ferry the following afternoon... Took a look about Picton which didnt take long to be honest and booked myself into the Sequoia Lodge hostel ...

Ok so here it is finally - a travel update extrodinairre from the last 2 months, sorry its been so long in coming but intermittent internet and memory access is to blame. the NZ adventures kicked off with a 16 hour film watching extravaganza on the plane from Jo'berg: East of Eden with Jimmy Dean, The Outsiders with Tom Waits cameo , and Love Ac...

Well I decided to escape Wellington for Christmas and experience the south island for the first time. Luckily the weather was really nice so it was a really calm sailing across the Cook Strait. The crossing took 3 hours and we got to sail through the Marlborough Sounds which were really impressive. After an afternoon of relaxing at my hostel, Se...

The following day we left Martinborough to head back to Wellington for our ferry ride across the Cook Strait. The journey on the ferry took 3 and a quarter hours and was quite rough due to the high winds and changeable weather they get in New Zealand at this time of year. As the ferry ride came to an end we sailed down through the Queen Charlott...

The car ferry ride into Picton was awesome. We arrived in through the Marlborough Sounds which were beautiful, the sea was really calm and it was nice and sunny and the scenery was brilliant. Aldo went into picture meltdown snapping absolutely everything! We checked into the Sequioa Lodge hostel and started planning what walks in the Sounds we w...