Hi all, Last thursday night we had dinner with friends we had met on the islands and met some of their friends too. We ended up sharing their room as our hostel was so disgusting! The next two days (friday and saturday) were spent lazing around the pool in the sun, topping up our tan! Just before we left for the airport we had dinner with 'the suncream natzi' Jane, then shared a taxi along some VERY bumpy roads! This was the beginnning of a very long day, as we would be living it twice! Apart from the medical emergency... our [View Full Entry]

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Bula!! we have been without the internet for over a week so sorry if this is rushed! On Monday night a Ngaio's it was "Family Night", which meant all of us going for a walk along the beach in the rain and getting completely soaked and sandy! However it was a good chance to get to know them before we leave tomorrow! Back at the house we ate an interesting dinner of croissants, pasta and sausages, which neither of us particularly liked, joined by her neighbour and her two young boys. (The neighbour had bought cheese cake which we were delighted [View Full Entry]

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Hiya, Thursday we got our first lie-in in what seems like years! After dragging ourselves out of bed we realised we had no milk for our porriage so we had to rush to the shops to buy some and visit an ATM - something that occurs all too regularly on this trip! After booking our bus for tomorrow morning to Nelson and hostels in Wellington and Roturua for next week, we got a shuttle bus to the glacier. We visited ''Peter's Pool" first with amazing reflections of the galcier, then walked uphill for about 20minutes for a slightly disappointing view of [View Full Entry]

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Hello last Monday we spent the day at Lou's only venturing out for a smoothy late afternoon when we realised we'd been stuck inside all day. The smoothy was basically a litre of yoghurt... which even for us was tough going and made us feel a bit sick! It was a bit of a non day really as we spent the rest of the day watching films and eating oven chips!! On Tuesday was got up early with the intention of going to Palm Beach (where they film Home & Away), however it was raining, so we did a load of [View Full Entry]

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Hi all! OK so I left you last Monday when we were about to get our overnight bus down to Melbourne. The journey started with a bang as, as the driver was pulling out of the bus station he stooled and we ended up gliding down the road without the engine on, coming to a hault in the middle of a cross roads and holding up all the traffic! However, apart from a few other blips in the drivers driving (we assumed he was new as he didn't do the announcement either when he boarded the bus, telling us his name [View Full Entry]

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Yo! After a relaxing morning on Tuesday we finally got our act together and went off to the Koala Sanctuary - which was AMAZING! We watched - from afar - a snake show, which was basically a long talk baout why you shouldn't be afraid of snakes and why people shouldn't kill them... im not entirely convinced... however, next thing I knew Sophie was suggesting we go and confront our fears by touching a snake. It took me a long time to realise she wasnt joking, and I have to say I felt no better for having done it and the [View Full Entry]

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G'day all! Tuesday was a very chilled day... whihc mainly consisted of watching T.V. in our pyjamas and eating a lot! In the late afternoon we felt that we should go running - considering we had bought running clothes in KL with the intention of starting to exercise on a regular basis once hitting Australia! We went off by ourselves so as not to distract one another... and both returned sweaty and red faced! I managed to jog for 45minutes before almost passing out and vowing never to do this again! However, I know that I have to to counteract all [View Full Entry]

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Goodday all! We have now arrived in Australia, after a fab week in Singapore with Mum... Last Tuesday we dragged ourselves out of our pit, after our last night in the creakiest bed ever! Double bed's now being the norm whenever either of us moved, we woke the other one up! The bus to Singapore was boring, however, we were both excited for it to be over, as this would be our last bus journey in South East Asia... although I think secretly both of us had managed to convince ourselves this would be the last one we would ever do [View Full Entry]

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Hello, its so hard to remember last weekend as this has been such an eventful week! We ended saturday by going to the revolving restaurant to celebrate two months of being away. We ate ALOT however, we both started to feel sick as I dont really like heights and it moved very quickly. Although we did get some great views of the city! Sunday was a boring day! EVERYTHING and I mean everything was closed! We attempt to visit the fort and museum, but it wa all closed. We had a late lunch at an Irish pub and attempted to watch [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! I left you last Sunday afternoon, so just to finish that off... We went to a Scandinavian restaurant for dinner, and inside the cover was a picture of the owners with Leo Di'caprio! Very exciting! We felt almost famous ourselves! Dinner was really good too. There had been another monsoon whilst we were inside the restaurant so outside was damp and still very hot. Back at our guesthouse we met the three girls we had travelled with and sat and chatted with them for a bit. "The geek" with her goggle specs - which magnified her eyes about 1000 [View Full Entry]

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