I can't believe it... I am sitting in my house writing this! That is the most wierd thing ever! We left Auckland at around 9:45pm, and we had the worst seats on the plane. We had the two seats right in the middle of the plane, which means we had a person on each side of us, so it was not very easy to keep getting up and walking around... It wasn't as bad as I had expected. I watched a couple of movies, and we were served dinner which was quite nice - I had roast beef, kumara and peas, [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone... I can't believe that this is the last entry that I will be writing while on this gap year tour! It has been so much fun, and I don't want it to end because I will have to go back to work, and do all of the boring things again! Thursday was a quiet day for us, we spent most of the morning playing board games with Ellen, and that was fun. At 12 noon, Ellen went to Ranjit's house and Ranee had to go out, so we watched some DVDs, went on the internet and played some card [View Full Entry]

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Monday morning we were picked up at 9:20am, and we had the best bus driver Steve again. We drove along the coast for a while, and took lots of photos as it was really pretty. We saw a colony of seals on the way to Picton, and we stopped there to take a couple of photos. When we got to Picton, we checked our bags in and went upstairs and watched Steve playing a hunting video game while we were waiting to be able to board the ship. We had to wait about 30 minutes for boarding to begin, but we [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Kaikoura on Friday at around 12:00pm, and our afternoon was spent watching movies and TV, and doing our journals and reading... A relaxing afternoon! We were meant to go whale watching yesterday, but when we woke up, the weather was not at its best. It was very windy, cold and raining. We phoned the whale watch company at 9:30am and they told us that due to the sea conditions they had cancelled the trip and we were given a full refund. It was a bit of a dissapointment, but it would not have been nice going out in [View Full Entry]

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Had a bit of a crazy night last night.... Started out at about 8:30pm down in the Altitude bar which is attached to the hostel that we were staying in... Had a glass of wine there with Mel and Jess and then bumped into Andrew, Elizabeth, Fia, Fia's boyfriend and Paul. Jess and I headed out to 'The World Bar' with everyone when Mel went to bed as she was tired. When we got to the World Bar, it was half price on 'teapots'. Basically a teapot is what it says on the tin. It is a normal teapot filled with [View Full Entry]

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The night that we arrived in Queenstown, we got some shopping for dinner, came back to the hostel and made spaghetti bolognese for dinner. It was really nice, especially as we had some cheese to put on top of it! Then after dinner, we got showered and dressed nicely, and went out to the bar that is attached to the hostel. It was the karaoke evening, so we decided to go and laugh at people doing it! We met up with Jess and another guy called Ron. We had a few drinks, and when the karaoke started, we watched a few [View Full Entry]

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Last night we spent the night in a small town called Wanaka. It is a really beautiful place that is on the edge of a glassy lake called... Lake Wanaka! Very original! We went out for dinner as it was Mel's birthday, and we had really nice food for dinner. Then we watched the end of the movie 'In her shoes' as we had a TV in our room, and the movies were FREE! This morning we left Wanaka at around 9am, and went to 'Puzzling World' where we walked through the illusion rooms, and saw all of the holographic illusions, [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, Mel writing here as yesterday Lauren and I did different things. The glacier walk was absolutely amazing! I thought I'd be freezing but it was warm with my 3 layers. We had to climb up really steep ice stairs then go through tunnels and through really narrow crevasses. It was an adventure and a very tiring day. I found once I stopped moving my muscles ached and my feet have lovely blisters on the back but it was worth it. I've got some pictures so I'll put them up too. The only downside of the day was that I [View Full Entry]

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Although I planned an early night last night, due to the lack of sleep the previous one, that did not happen.... ...Went to the bar last night, had a great time, saw some of the people that we had left behind a few days ago. It was nice to see them all, and they told us all about their glacier walk, and how amazing it is. Shame I can't go, stupid knees! This morning I got up at 7:30, and walked down to the supermarket with Mel, we got lots of snacks for her day on the glacier, and I also [View Full Entry]

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Since we left the North Island on Monday, we have been pretty busy doing plenty of things... Monday we spent most of our day on the ferry getting across to the South Island, and then caught a new Kiwi Bus to take us from Picton (where the ferry docks) to Nelson (the town we were staying in). When we got to Nelson, we (Mel, me, Floris, Andrew and another girl) wandered around town and finally found a supermarket to buy our dinner from.... We got back to the hostel in time for the free beer tasting at 5:30, and that was [View Full Entry]

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