Bula!! When you think of Fiji, you think of sun, white sand, palm trees, and a lot of relaxing - coincidentally - that's how my time was, well mostly! Nadi Clear skies as we flew into Nadi, and it was noticably hotter when we "disembarked" the plane! It wasn't long before we experienced "Fiji Time" - normally it's great, no rushing around, just a "when you're ready" philosophy. But when you're sitting in an airport waiting for a shuttle bus....? The Nomads Skyodge hostel was nice, if a little isolated. The $10 meal would only have filled a 5 year old!! [View Full Entry]

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Around half way through the month on the North Island I jumped back on the Stray bus. I'd already paid for the ticket and it allowed me to do the Tongariro crossing. Amy jumped on too, and we met up with Wendy which was cool as it had been a good while since we'd seen each other, let alone travelled together. For some reason, when I publish this blog is resets all the photo labels and order so apologies for things that do not match. Auckland to Hahei Shortly after jumping aboard the substantially smaller bus we went up to the [View Full Entry]

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Going to have to make this brief because I'm miles/kilometres behind on my blogs! I'm in the US of A at the moment, been to Fiji, and this blog is now about things that happened 6 weeks ago! Windy Wellington Tent nearly blew away in the night, Amy and I had to jump out 3 times in the night to peg the thing back down!! Never been to a city so windy! Botanical gardens were pretty, especially the rose garden. The old cable car the takes you to the top of them was a nice addition and museum was interesting - [View Full Entry]

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I've barely paused for breath since my last blog, not that I'm daring to complain, it's just an explanation as to why i haven't had a chance to update my blog! Since Christchurch I have only spent consecutive nights anywhere twice. Again, apologies if parts don't make sense - I haven't really edited... I'll carry on from where I left off... Milford Sound Another Jurassic Park moment or two. Leaving Queenstown before sunrise, it was a sleepy bus ride to the Milford sound. However heads started to lift as we got closer and the scenery improved. Like most people I booked [View Full Entry]

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I have to begin by saying I have never fell in love with a country in quite the same way as I have with New Zealand. My last 4 weeks have been jam packed with adventure, awe and adrenaline! I really should have written a blog here before now because I have done so much, but here goes... New Zealand: South Island Christchurch Although i am currently in Christchuch, I originally landed in Christchurch way back on 2nd February, which frankly feels like a lifetime ago. Here 2 nights, I spent my time exploring the city. It had a somewhat relaxed [View Full Entry]

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...Aussie - Oi oi oi! From Melbourne, we hired another car to get back to Sydney for Australia day. yet again the hire company tried to give us a hatchback, but after a brief discussion we unded up with a brand new mitsubishi saloon with a 3.8litre semi automatic engine! such a nice car, really smooth, and lots of gadgets. it made me realise why people buy those sorts of cars! We drove down to wilsons prom, which is the southern most point of australia and then along to lakes entrance where we spent the night. then up to canberra before [View Full Entry]

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From Melbourne we hired a car to go down the great ocean road and up the grampians before heading back to Melbourne. The bright spark at the rental place didnt think about it being a little bit illegal to drive an 8 seater if you are under 25! fortunately there only ended up being 5 of us. so after telling him "no a 3 door hatchback wont be big enough for 5 people plus backpacks!" we ended up with this monster of a mitsubishi! it was no looker but it had a 3.5litre V6 unber the bonnet so i wasnt compaining! [View Full Entry]

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G'day again from down under! although this is listed as being in Melbourne i'm actually back in Sydney, it's just i spent so long at melbourne park i thought it deserved a mention! ok since my last blog i have been pretty busy and covered around 3000km, which is pretty far in 2 and bit weeks! i'm making use of the free internet and getting all done now as these will be my last blogs in Oz - so apologies for the long read, but at least you didnt have to write them!! Ended up visiting canberra twice, one on the [View Full Entry]

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G’day everybody! ok since my last blog i have ventured down the coast to sunny Sydney. After leaving surfers paradise with some of the guys i spent christmas with, i spent 2 days in Byron Bay. Annoyingly, not as long as i had wanted, but then we were running out of days to new years! Byron was really nice, essentially a heavily tourism driven seaside town, but really laid back and completely different to surfers paradise. The beach and waves were good fun, and the hostel (holiday village) had free boards to use too! We had an appartment between 4 of [View Full Entry]

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...Ho, Merry Christmas! Well it has been a little while since my last blog and i've done some amazing things in that time! Australia has been amazing, having a great time. ok so going back... last time i wrote i was about to get the overnight bus to airlie beach, that was a shattering journey. being 6 foot 3 it's not so easy to sleep when you have leg room roughly the size of a first class stamp, oh and a japanese girl who decided my shoulder would make an ideal pillow at 4 in the morning! Kind of getting used [View Full Entry]

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