from Coldplay to playing in the cold (well not that cold)

So since I last wrote us guys have been up to quite a bit! The first night we drove with our campers into the middle of a forest where we could camp for free and then the next day we headed off to Sydney for the final part of our aussie adventures.

First of all in sydney we got lost on the harbour bridge! josh and Tom went one way with myself and matt behind and we wern't concentrating so Me and Matt ended up in the centre of sydney completely lost but having alot of fun accidently going into bus lands and nearlly going into car parks that were about a meter too low for our van whilst josh and tom were somewhere completely different panicking because they had lost us! After we found eachother we headed out of town to a camp site. We then headed off to see coldplay that evening - well it wasn't that easy! First of all we planned to get the bus with just over an hour to go until 30 minutes before we are meant to be there that no buses are going to turn up so we rushed back to try and get a taxi! 45 minutes after that we realised the taxi wasn't going to turn up either - by this point myself, tom and matt were just casually playing with sticks in the road quite happily whilst josh was having a mental fit and violently pacing round in circles due to thought of actually missing coldplay! We tried our hardest to calm him down but he wasn't having any of it! Josh is sat behind me at the moment saying "your making me sound like a mental" - well he was crazy! We finally got to coldplay by deciding to jump into one of the campervans and drive through sydney very quickly to get there in perfect timing, well except missing the support act! On the night coldplay were amazing and the atmosphere was awesome! they also had some cool lasers and lights which were cool!

The few days after Coldplay we took the campers back which was a sad moment, the couple of days after that we headed off around sydney and checked out a couple of beaches like bondi beach and manly beach and went into the centre of sydney.

Yesterday we got up really early to get a taxi to the airport for our flight to New Zealand! the flight went well apart from going through security on the way where we had agreed to not attract attention to ourselves and just get on the plane! This didn't quite go to plan when matts bag got searched thoroughly as it had suncream in and a giant sharp bottle opener! The flight over was nice and easy and it was time to pick up our car and head into Christchurch. The car is nice and big - the only thing is that it is automatic so were all having to get used to driving that!

Our First stop in New Zealand is where we are at the moment which is Ronnie, Nigel and Tims house. Its been amazing here staying in a proper house again and it weird having things like carpets and duvets that we have not had for the last 2 months! We've had great food which is a million times better than us four attempting to cook and I had the best nights sleep I've had in the whole holiday as I had two pillows! Normally when at home I have at least 8 pillows so having one has been difficult but two is a definite improvement! Today we headed off slightly out of christchurch to a cool cafe at the top of a hill - coincidently called 'hill top cafe'. The views from the cafe were amazing!

Over the next couple of days were heading off to queenstown to do some jet boating and bungee jumping and extreme sports like that that I will probably wimp out of most of them and ill sit with a cup of tea and watch from a distance!

Hope all is well,

Will x