http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Jason-and-Elliott/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Jason and Elliott en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:56:37 +0000 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:56:37 +0000 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 Quee http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-311050.html 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 t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-310291.html Morning allRight 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-310290.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-309544.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-308870.html 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 o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-308864.html 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 EnjoyEl http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-308860.html 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 gentsWell we've not found any internet cafes today we're in Greymouth at the moment so having to use the kiosk at the Top Te http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-308470.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-308474.html 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 i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Picton/blog-307663.html Hello ladies and gentsYou've got me for this entry and Jason's gonna give you the low down on our trip to the South Island. This one as you can guess from the title deals with our day off in Wellington. We were treating ourselves to a lie in of eight am I know it sounds odd but honestly this is a lie in. One of the highlights this morning was that on our fourth box of Nestle cereal w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-307658.html Heya everyoneI know two blog entries waiting for you on waking up But don't get to excited as you can see today's entry isn't gonna be a barrel of laughs. After the Thermal Village we both went to bed earlyish to get up at five to hopefully get a full day's hiking up at Mount Ngauruhoe which was used by Peter Jackson as Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings. We're both pretty psyched about thi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-306562.html Hi everyone it is Jason writing the blog on this occasion although Elliott is right beside me checking as we go that i don't miss anything important that may have happened. My memory is quite terrible so here goes.The night was a relatively quiet one except for the text that i recieved from Deena that included a photo of her stuck working in the heatwave Boohoo it was like 1 degree where i was i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-306554.html ElliottYep as you can see from the title me and Jason did something wonderfulamazingstupid yesterday after he had finished his blog entry...Before I forget If you haven't already subscribe to the blog There's a link on the main page www.mytb.orgjasonandelliott which just asks for your email address. Whenever we write a new entry it'll email to let you know. We're moving out of Ro http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-305782.html Hello everyone it's Jason this time sorry i have been a bit lazy when it comes to blogging have been leaving it up to Elliott as to be honest his memory is better than mine and i have a habit of missing huge chunks of events out. But i am gonna do this one just for you folks back home I am hopefully going to add some videos we have done on the camera. Not to sure which ones yet some may be r http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-305278.html Hello Ladies and GentsYou're stuck with me again for today's blog as Jason on the PC next to me has uploaded Skype and is talking to Emma Rozenn and Deena in real time. So muggins here is stuck listening to one side of the conversation. Ah well I get all you lovely people.It's been a while since our last update and that's partly due to the last place we stayed at had no internet and we'v http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-304894.html Hello everyoneAs you can see we've moved on since this morning having travelled north to Ninety Mile Beach which is fandamntastic. Took about five hours to get here so Jason's pretty bushed it's 10.12pm here and he's asleep on the seat beside me. I'll take him back to the Merc inna minute. We're at a new motor camp The Park one of the more up scale ones this time. It's computer ha http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Ninety-Mile-Beach/blog-303511.html Good Morning everyone I apologise that this entry is going to be shorter then the last few but we are running out of money for the computers as we've not got that many coins at the moment. Also no pictures in this entry as we can't get access to the computer tower it's all locked up. Hopefully we can edit this entry later tonight.As you can see from the location we've now left Auckland a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Orewa/blog-303306.html Well its blog time again the last blog ended when we woke up at midnight and started planning our first proper day in New Zealand i am going to continue now with how those plans went so here goes.When i had woken up it had turned out that Elliott had been up during the night with some stomach problems fortunately i had slept through it all. I also slept through the whistling noise the window h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-302891.html Hello everyone Well as you can see by me writing this we've made it across to the other side of the world alive and whole. It's Monday 21st of July 910am for us at the moment but it's 9.42pm Sunday 20th for you guys Right where did Jason end the last entry Ah right. After making our first entry we had some cheeseburgers with Graham and then repacked our bags and went through the list http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-302481.html