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Jason and Elliott We created this blog so our friends and family back home can see what we're getting up to in our month in New Zealand. This is the furthest either of us have travelled from home before, and the first time either of us has gone on holiday solely with just a friend for company. Follow our trials and tribulations below!

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We are leaving from London Heathrow at 21:05 GMT on friday the 18th of july and the first destination will be a 2 hour stop over in Hong Kong :-D We arrive there at 15:50 (will be about 0800 GMT on saturday the 19th) We then depart Hong Kong at 18:10 and make our way to New Zealand. We will arrive at Aucklands Jean Batten airport at 08:45 sunday 20th of july. fun fun fun

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Hello again ladies and gents, for what is most likely going to be my last entry on this trip! I'm gonna cover our days in Dunedin in this entry, and for completeness sake Jason will write up our last few days in Christchurch most likely when we're black in Britain... odd, I know. Anyhoo, Dunedin (which is Gaelic for Edinburgh, so as I mentioned in my last entry, it's a Scottish city). We left Queenstown on the 9th, following the usual morning routine, except for my trip to the computer kiosk, as my graduation tickets are on sale and I wanted [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 12th 2008 | 107 Views | [diary=311050]

The dark snow clouds
Dartmoor-esq hills
Jason moments before he lost his cool with the PC

Its been a few days i know since the last post, but we have been stuck with limited time, and the time we do have spare is filled with crap computers that we are pretty sure are on dial up internet. But that is neither here nor there so i will get right on with todays blog. This is Jason again and i have been given the privilege of telling you about our day in Queenstown and the Lord of the Rings tour that we took as well. The day started the same as any other except that we allowed ourselves [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 10th 2008 | 57 Views | [diary=310291]

The Misty Mountains
Caradhras
The hill in the middle was where the Rohan emcampment was filmed

Morning all, Right, where did we leave you? Ah yeah, we've just finished our glacial walk. Well, the night went alright. though I did manage to drop a bowl (we only had to two, forcing me to eat out of a plastic microwavable bowl) and in the middle of the night the alarm fuse randomly started emitting a strange buzzing noise. Maui haven't supplied us with any manufactures information, so I just turn the damn thing off. Had to do that every night. Honestly, this thing is falling apart around us - the lights have their own personality, one only turning [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 10th 2008 | 52 Views | [diary=310290]

Jason stuffing his face
Tree covered hills were our companions for the majority of the beginning
River Haast

Jason: Right. Some of you already know because of various texts, but we are thinking that we may come back a little earlier than planned. Now this in no way has anything to do with lack of money or homesickness or medical conditions OR trouble with any local law enforcements. We are simply arriving in Christchurch several days earlier than planned, and having completed most activities that we set out to do, there isn't much left to fill our time. We will be spending 6 days in Christchurch and i think you will agree that after a couple of days we [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 7th 2008 | 58 Views | [diary=309544]


Dantooine
Dantooine
Saw this today (Wednesday 6th August) but Jason wont stick it in the official blog, so you can view it all here! (It's Star Wars btw)
Hello everyone, no blog in this entry (we're writing them next) but we're posting this as an entry so you get a message in your inbox's. We've moved onto Franz Joseph and found a decent set of computers, so we now have photo's for "Now this is what we're talking about..." and "Here be Dragons... I mean Whales", the last two blog entries. We also put the order back the right way around :) Enjoy! Elliott [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 6th 2008 | 36 Views | [diary=308860]


Evening all, though god knows what time it'll actually be when you read this, so just accept for the moment that is indeed an evening (it is for us, it's 6.38 here). I'm here to continue the story of our trip in the South Island. Ignoring the shitty computers we had yesterday and Jason's mini rant (to be fair, yesterday afternoon was probably the first time we both lost our cool at the same time on this holiday). Anyway, we were attempting to head to Greymouth, but the weather and damage to the road system was blocking us at every turn. [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 6th 2008 | 92 Views | [diary=308864]

Morning in Hanmer Springs
More snow covered mountains
Winter Wonderland

You are very lucky people, you have the priviledge of hearing about the days antics before i even get chance to right about it in my journal. Hello again everyone, this is Jason typing and i am in charge of telling you about the day spent driving from Greymouth to Franz Josef, and then about the exciting Glacier walk. Right before i begin i would again like to say thanks to all of you who have left messages and comments, keep them coming. We get up every morning and look forward to getting to a computer and logging into our blog [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 6th 2008 | 127 Views | [diary=308870]

Elliott at the Franz Josef Glacier
Jason walking towards the glacier
The Crampons

And once again there are a flurry of blogs for you to browse over this fine morning. Elliott and I have driven on now, and are currently in Greymouth South Island. But we are only just about to update our blogs with the happenings on the sunday after we arrived in the south island and the monday where we did Whale watching and then drove to a place called Hammer Springs. Elliott is in charge of the former whereas I have the delightful job of doing the latter. Hope all is well with you all and as always we appreciate any [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 5th 2008 | 79 Views | [diary=308474]

Elliott on the boat
Jason on the boat
The 'Hydraphone'

***UPDATE: READ THIS FIRST*** Despite what I say later, this computer wont upload my goddamn photos! I'm miffed! Hopefully once Jason's done his entry I can try again on PC, but I'm not holding my breath. Sorry people, will get them up later I guess... Hello ladies and gents! Well we've not found any internet cafes today (we're in Greymouth at the moment) so having to use the kiosk at the Top Ten park where we are staying, so I apologise now if this is a little subpar to what you are used too... Right, Jason left off with us in [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 5th 2008 | 41 Views | [diary=308470]

Rolling hills of the Southland
The Driver
Some of our route

Well hello everyone. Jason here, and i know that once again there is several blogs for you to read. Two proper blogs and one containing all the videos of importance up to this point. Hope you are all well, we are doing great, still feeling the homesickness but we are getting by ok and enjoying it all as much as we can. Well this is it, the day we move from Wellington in the North island to Picton in the South island. It has only been two weeks in the North Island but is feels like so much more, what with [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 3rd 2008 | 58 Views | [diary=307663]

Elliott and I while waiting for the check in person
Elliott reading while i stuff my face (off camera)
The queue that we were WAITING IN!!!



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