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Published: September 11th 2007
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Mmmmmmmmm New Zealand i reckon this one will be interesting.....prob more interesting than Oz!!!! A lot smaller, two islands, supposed to be quite lush n mountainous n more green like england........sounds good!!!! and of course i get to see Elise here as well so of course an added bonus....bring it on!!!!
Didn't realise the weather is going to be so much cooler in nz than in oz :-( might have to buy a new jacket!!!!! Also i need a weeks hol before i start anymore hardcore travelling and sight seeing!!!!
Monday 22nd October 2007 i flew from Melbourne to ChristChurch yayyyyyyyy!!!! welcome to New Zealand, well its certainly a few degrees cooler bit nippy compared to oz but at least the sun is shining!!!! looks rather more like england so far than oz did, lots of sheep everywhere and green grass!!!!
I'm staying in a really random hostel call freidenhaus-womens house-women only hostel, with loads of weird free stuff like free bikes, washing, guinea pigs n a rabbit etc its really cool n different, weird no blokes being here and there are loads of asian people here not many western!!!!! I like it tho especially the free washing
have emptied out my entire back pack for the first time and pretty much washed, dryed and ironed it all wow check me out!!!!!! the hostel is quite old fashioned almost like stuck 50 years ago!!!! But all cool!!!!!!
Christchurch is quite a small quiet town, not much here at all really except the cathedral which is the central point, other than that it is all very old fashioned kind of like an old rubbishy town in england say dover or folkestone!!! all the shops are naff and you wouldn't really bother going shopping here but it was the same in oz really guess england is a bit more advanced and developed when it comes to good shopping!!!!!
Basically been trying to chill out and catch up on sleep have lyed in the first two mornings here pretty late, have also now booked my kiwi experience, doing the kea option as there are loads of options this one covers most of the south n north island and takes you from christchurch up to auckland which is what i need as my flights were into and out of these places!!!! have spoken to elise quite a bit and we
are definately going to meet up in auckaland!!!!
Today i'm going to go on the tram around christchurch and to the gondola, the tram was really sweet a good way to see most of christchurch quickly, it is actually quite a sweet nice town actually, with some lovely old buildings!!!! was quite surprised how nice the old buildings were, very much like canterbury at home!!!! the botanical gardens were also very nice quite different from the ones in singapore obviously as an asian country and the ones in melbourne, here they were far more englishy with big old tress which waas cool, i liked the trees, turned out the Gondola was closed as it was quite a windy day but i can go when i get back to christchurch again.
Oh blimey havent written this for a while and have been doing so much dunno if i can even remeber everything!!!!
So started the kiwi exp on thursday 25 oct, was bit nervous getting on a bus full of people i didnt know but all cool, the buses are really cool, nice and big, comfortable, all carpeted floors n big green kiwi buses yayyyy fun!!!! i straight
away started chatting to people sitting round me which was cool as they were all nice so got to know people n felt at home straight away!!! everyone told me where they'd been and what they'd been up to so gave me astuff to look forward to.....!!!!!!we headed to kiakoura, the drivers are all so cool, kiwi exp is so much fun, not too expensive, meet so many cool people, they help you so much with all ur accomodation and trips so its so much easier for you like a luxury trip!!!!!
first trip i did in kiakorua was the whale watching a load of us paid $117 to go whale watching, it was freezing cold but nice n sunny, we went out miles on a bloody fast boat n spent quite a while driving about to try and find some whales!!! ha ha we spent ages waiting and finally found one!!!!!
it was pretty mad, seeing this massive massive big creature, biggest mammal in the world floating in the sea not far from us!!!!! it was huge but we couldnt see much of it, we watched for quite a while and then it finally went to dive
down and did some pathetic little plop down under the ocean lol!!! so that was cool!!!!
that night we stayed at a lovely little hostel, top loft i think in kiakorua, we all went for drinks down at the local quiet random pub and played killer pool to get to know everyone all good!!!!!
The next mornign we headed from kiakoura towards Nelson but via picton to drop people off who were heading over to the north island and pick up people who were joing to coem to the south island, so bit weird as had only just met poepl and then they were going but this is what happens in travelling life!!!!!! So funny two people that i had met in hervey bay in australia becca and charles joined the kiwi bus this day, i didnt even know they were coming to new zealand so now ive met them again and spent a good few days with them which is cool!!!!
Nelson is an okay town, supposed to be sunny but wasn't that sunny when we were there, we arrived and took a quick walk up the massive hill to the centre point of new zeland
which was pretty neat, good views, that night we just styaed in as we were staying at a really nice like a hotel/pub hostel so stayed in.
Next morning we set off again early, corrrr the kiwi exp alwasy starts off in the morn at like 7.30, 8 or 8.30am so all have to get up early!!!!! think that morning we prob did a couple of cool hikes, its good cos the drivers point out so much cool stuff n make u stop and get off and go for walsk so u see loads, seals, sights and pancake rocks etc which are all amzing!!!!! so the kiwi bus is cool good way to see everything, id def recommend that people do it id say you need at least 4 or 5 weeks in new zealand and loads of money to do all the awesome activities!!!!!!
So we headed to westport today, noe the bus has a good big group of people all travellign along at the same time which is col as we all know each other well and see each other each day. again westport was jsut small but a night stop over place, that night we
had a massive group beach bonfire!!!! we went down to the beach and made a huge bonfire, drank and chatted and sang songs etc was really realyl cool good way to get to know everyone!!!!!!
Next morning again we headed off from westport to laka mahinapua!!!! this is where els the 83 year old old man owns the hostel wherewe stay he's famopus for it!!!! on the way we had a coupld of stops and walks which are all so beautiful this country is very lush!!!!! we stopped in greymouth to get food shopping and outfits ready for our dress up party that night at les's hostel!!!!! yer dress up night was lush!!!! we all had dionner together aboyut 40 of us streak and veg, cooked by les and smiley our lovely driver!!!! then we all got dressed up and headed to the pub/bar which is mad covered in photos of groups that have all stayed at les's pub/hostel!!!! was a very cool night, everyone dressed up so good, was a competition to win a bungy, i wanted to win but didnt but very very good funny night!!!!
next mronign we were in for a surprise we got
up and smiley sed that 6 of us could go now with damo from the skydivign company to do our sky dives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So still dressed up and drunk we headed off!!!!
SEE NEXT ENTRY FOR THIS MANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
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Seeing Elise NOOOOOOOO
I am soooooo upset your seeing elise i really wish i was going with you. Make sure you send her my love (even though i spk to her weekly) i want you to give her a big cuddle from me as i cant do that!!!Bet your have loads of fun as i am always hearing from elise it has good night life.