The beauty of living from our backpacks, back seats, and the flimsy shelter of our Malaysian tent, is the total freedom it affords. We drive where the wind takes us, wear whatever clothes are clean-ish and sleep on the flattest land we can find. So it came to be that we pulled into the adrenaline capital of New Zealand, Queenstown. Not the trashy town full of drunken youths that i half expected to find, this was a beautiful town, full of cobbled lanes set around the glimmering Lake Wakatipu. We weren't here with the intention of throwing ourselves off a bridge, although this is the original and first bungy sight ever created, gastonomic thrills were more the flavour of the day. Wine tasting in the nearby Gibson Valley, followed by a mega pistachio ice-cream from the
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