East Coast Of Australia, New South Wales

Jan 25, 2010

It was a reasonably early start on the 27th for the trip to Oz, I was dropped off in Taupo centre and picked up the Naked Bus (just a company don’t worry) to Hamilton. I had planned to be met by Christian one of the German Gappy’s also at Marks school and he was going to take me to Auckland airport. I had a slight scare when his phone was off and I couldn’t get through till about half an hour away, but luckily he was there and I made it ...

Christmas Holidays, New Zealand

Jan 25, 2010

It has been well over a month and a half since my last blog post so I will separate the holidays into pre Australia and Australia on wards. So going right back to November and at the time I was doing a lot of training, I got my first bike puncture! That was pretty frustrating only 11km in and having t5o get a teacher to drive out and pick me up but I guess that was a new experience. I then had the hardest run of my life after that as I felt li...

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Nov 23, 2009

Hello again from PN which just had an Earthquake!! Firstly however taking off from the last one I was planning to go down to Wellington with Chris to see Cameron ( the friend who we bumped into driving down the road) as he was staying there and getting a job for a month. However that Friday which was meant to be a quiet night however Sava (young Oz teacher) came into dinner told me I had 30 minutes to be changed and round their house to drink...

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Oct 29, 2009

It’s going to be hard to make this blog more interesting than two weeks travelling in the South Island and meeting some very interesting people like Ben. So this will just be a smaller update of some of the smaller things I have done in the last two weeks. The weather here has taken a turn for the worst on the whole, with what I think is the equivalent of the April Showers hitting Palmy especially. The cricket match against Chris’s school ...

South Island!, New Zealand

Oct 13, 2009

Well I think it’s been over 2 weeks since my last blog but being on the road and the experiences I had I think it was best to wait and try do it as one. The school term ended two days after I left for wellington, luckily I was allowed to leave a few days early as I found out it was so much cheaper to travel then. However I unfortunately missed the Winter sports day that would have been really good as its sports like rugby, football, basketba...