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

Im back in chile again yes thats right more border crossings! i have about 8 enter and exit stamps now for this country! Ok im back of my treck in the torres del paine national park and am feeling like i need foot replacement surgery! this is the story... Myself, hannah, mayo,gil and wes set off on out 3 day treck to see the glaciers and lakes of the park on a nice sunny day. The first day we set up camp and hiked 9 hours up and down to see the towers (hugh granite mountain pillars) which was amazing dispite the rock climb/scramble up the mountains. We were really lucky as we got to see the famous 3 towers (mum i have sent you a post card of these) as the clouds cleared (some people ... read more

Again another long bus journey from b.a to puerto madryn, 20 hours in total but ona bus i can describe a a moving hotel....oh yes thank god a real bus at last rather than a moving shed on wheels. I was sad to leave katie in the millhouse as we all had such a good time together but she was going home and had already traveled the south. So theres me, hannah, niome and maya the 4 girls on a road trip to meet up with the lads that had left before in buenos aires, now this bus was good infact when it finally reached our destination we we fast asleep and had to be woken up, i would have stayed on there another day you got hot food and wine and a movie in english ... read more