Hi Everyone,

Sorry I have slacked off so much with recent blog entries, We didn’t really have internet in New Zealand and when I first got to Australia, I could not face updating everything we had done. Matt on the other hand covered New Zealand in great depth so you can read about that on his blog.

Last week we spent the week in Melbourne with Matt’s family, we had a really great time. It was great to see them again, my room seemed giant after a month of sleeping in a van. We spent the week seeing Melbourne in the day and eating the most amazing food at night. At the Weekend, Linda and Richard to us to Ramsey street or Pineoak court as it is also known. My friend Katy who is a bit obsessed with Neighbours, said I should get a photo of me with the sign. Matt had assured me for weeks that due to not actually being called Ramsey there was no chance of this. When we got down there, we actually by fluke timed it with the offical neigbours tour and we ‘borrow’ their prop; the neigbours sign.

Obviously this was the highlight of the week but another great thing we did was go to an animal sanctuary to see ozzie animals. It was really great because you could get really close to the animals and even feed them.

We are currently in Sydney, which is great to look around, Bondi beach was amazing. We are heading off today to go and visit Matt and Helen’s friend, which I have a heard a lot about but that actually met, so it should all be fun! (more…)

Fun day today, started off with me getting locked in the shower, had to break the lock, never felt so manly in my life, the guy in the campervan next to us looks exactly like gandulf in a tracksuit. Our afternoon was spent at puzzling world, pictures below!

We spent most of the day today travelling, which sounds a bit lame, but the scenery was absolutely amazing. It has been a weird and stressful couple of days, due to the fact New Zealand has cost be more than I had anticipated, although as you can tell from these photos, the money spent has been worth it.

PS: I ache so much after yesterday’s gruelling glacier hike!

Today we went up Franz Josef’s Glacier, which was absolutly amazing, i was bricking it as I am little scared of heights, but I am so glad I did it. We went up as a group with a guide, because I am English and scared, I relised I would rather plumet to my death then be put in a socially awkward situation and look like an idiot in front of other people. I was also werry of going up the glacier due to my current financial situation, hopefully I will be able to sort myself out soon though. Unfortunaly my nose bleeds are back, which is lame!

Here are some pictures, note that I wore shorts up the glacier, this is not because I am hardcore, it’s just simply because I have split my jeans and wasn’t willing to wreck my other trousers:

Well I have been here a week and it is already time to leave. Canada has been interesting, it was a difficult few days when I first arrived. I felt pretty down about the whole travelling thing. As soon as a spoke to my Dad on the phone, Matt and Helen arrived and my suitcase arrived, things instantly started picking up.

We fly to New Zealand tomorrow, I really can’t wait. It is the part of the trip that I am most looking forward to. I’m not sure how much I will be able to use the internet, while I am New Zealand, as the majority of the time, we will be in a campervan. I will update this blog as soon as I can.

Thanks to everybody who has send me messages so far, so good to keep in contact with people from home!

The last few days have been dam good especially in the food department, on monday we got the best burgers ever from a place called Veras, the girl who served me had visited Coventry 6 or 7 times, obviously my first response to this was….why? Last night we had the most amazing chinese, it was so amazingly cheap and we had so so much of it.

For some reason, all Canadians seem to think we are from Oz, which is a bit strange, I think because there are so many Austrialians in the hostel, we are slowly catching the accent, at the moment, I keep going up at the end of sentences, which is never a good thing.

We’re trying to do a podcast of our travels, and we’ve just uploaded the first episode - here it is:

Episode 1 - Vancouver

Yesterday morning has pretty difficult as I was running out of money, clothes as well as this i was running out of patience with BA. I phoned home and found out my Nan had passed away, although this didn’t come as a shock, i was still pretty upset about the whole thing. Luckily yesterday was the day that Matt and Helen arrived in Vancouver, as soon as they arrived things started to look up.

It is very sunny here, which is always good when your mood needs a boost, also one of the main headlines on the news today was ‘dirty fruit’, which made me smile, not sure exactly what was happening in fruit news, I’ll let you know.

Day 2 in Canada and unsurprisingly: still no suitcase. I didn’t do much yesterday apart from wonder round and buy toiletries, the only toothpaste was I could find was spongebob squarepants toothpaste; it tastes amazing: bubblegum flavour. One of my roommates appears to have massive beef with me for no good reason, he doesn’t even speak to me when i come in the room but instead looks at me like I’ve just trodden on his cat or something, at least tonight my room mates are Matt and Helen. I plan to steal Matt’s clothes, thank god he is tall!

Hello everyone, i arrived safely from England yesterday and it was all running smoothly until I went to get my luggage. I didn’t think much too much to terminal 5, it looks ok, my luggage obviously loves it as it is still there. Sometimes when your tired things get exsaserbated and that is how i think things are at the moments, i’m in such a crappy mood due to much of what i own is still in terminal 5, i have just been wondering around much of the date just trying to kill time until Matt and Helen arrive tomorrow.

I have managed to find Nerds the sweets which you no longer get in England, so swings and roundabouts, hopefully tomorrow’s entry will be more cheery!