Today i have actually had the time of my life. I havent seen any hobbits here yet but decided to throw myself out of a plane over some hobbitsa at 12000 feet from a plane! its something ive always wanted to do but never thought id actually go through with it....well it was flippin brilliant! We booked the skydive the day before and no one was allowed to talk about it....It was refered to as the thing we are doing tomarrow, i was deffinatly thinking what have i got myself into in the plane on the way up. It all happens so fast though, i was the first one out of the jet not by choice and crapping myself but as soon as i exited the plane i was smiling all the way (i have a ... read more

We arrived here and had a mooch around the city to find out that the dog and horse racing were free that night so off we went, won a few and lost a few and only spent a few dollas barging great day out in all. Its started to rain alot on the 2nd day so we opted to go to the swimming baths and take full advantage of the whirl pools, spas and steam room, came out looking all new and clean (after 4 days of living in a car park with a freezing cold shower by the sea it was a deffinate luxury). We went to a show which was on at the theater called the shape of things which was highly entertaining, agian another great night! The 3rd day jade and I went ... read more

God everythings so normal here it feels like coming back to reality or something everyone speaking english, fish and chip shops around the corner its weird! arrived in auckland at 4am but was wide awake as the time difference from south america is about 11 hours. 1st day found a free festival to go to called groove in the park, was good not as big as the festivals at home but a good start, ended up going back to a girls house with some people we met and stayed out all night (as usuall) Spent the next few days pottering about i went to the zoo and the underwater place whilst hannah went vintage shopping...I saw a giant stingrays about 1.5 meters width the biggest id ever seen and they are really cool! Spent a day ... read more

After another mamouth bus journey of about 30 hours we arrived in bariloche. Now ive heard some rumours about the chocolate shops and i can confirm they are all true...chocolate shops everywhere arrrrgh and really good ones at that (i told hannah i would post here passport details and photos in the windows if she was found lingering in them for more than 20 mins at a time. We went horse riding into the mountains which gave us amazing views of the lakes, it was quite amusing watching our friend danny trailing behind on his pony and yelling yale cadema acshelly which is in hebrew comeone forward my brother as he was always last...ha ha (yes ive been learning bit and bobs of hebrew along the way. everyone arse, back, arms etc were crippled after the ... read more

It was time to say goodbye to gill, maya,wes naiomi and danny that hannah and i have traveled with for the last month, We spent our last day here in el bolson which is a really cool place. There was a hippie market on so we did some shopping for hand made stuff like bags, belts, neclaces cheese boards etc like you do and then sat in the park with a can (ok a few cans) of quilmers and watched some live bands playing their guitars and saxaphones...what a chilled out day ....was abit blurry by the end of it he he ....said bye to the lads, was really sorry to leave them, ive had a really good time over the last month dispite the trecking in the p*ssing rain, the blisters, gils sandwiches, mayas bloody ... read more