The last few days have been good fun. On Monday it was Josh's birthday so In the morning he went Bungy Jumping and Myself and Matt went to play Segway Golf! Segway golf is probably the best game ever invented! We caused quite a bit of havoc flying around the course into anything in our way and into each other! Once we got the hang of them we were pretty good and we were hitting the top speed most of the time and we didn't fall off much! In the afternoon the others went skydiving but I couldnt do it so Im going to try and do it somewhere else but it was a great day! In the evening josh opened up his birthday presents that we wrapped up in towels because we couldnt find and wrapping paper and then then we all digged into a bit of birthday cake after a few birthday beverages and a ferg burger which are probably the best burgers in the world!
The next day we headed off to Milford sound which is a huge fiord about 4 hours from where we were. we woke up at 6 o'clock to get there on time with me and tom sharing the driving because the other two were asleep in the back for the whole journey! Milford is an amazing place with loads of waterfalls and seals and stuff like that! we were lucky to get there on a sunny day as it rains for 220 days a year apparently.
Were back in queenstown now and were heading up the west coast to Franz Joseph in the next couple of days!
Will x
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Queenstown!
Since leaving Ronnie and Nigels house in christchurch we have been heading slightly south towards queenstown where we are now! The scenery on the way down has been amazing all the way and you never get boring roads. Myself and matt have adapted well to driving an automatic car but its taking a bit longer for josh and tom! They keep thinking the car is going to stall when they slow down so they wack there foot on the break, thinking its the clutch meaning that we stop very quickly and everyone goes flying out of their seats!
On the way down we have stopped off at a few beautiful lakes that are turquoise in coulour and are surrounded by snow capped mountains! I was tempted to go for a swim until I put my foot in the water and it was freezing cold!
Were now in queenstown which is where all the extreme sports are! We went jet boating today which was a good laugh and a bit scary as we were so close to smashing into rocks at points! Tommorrow is joshs birthday so we decided to do all the crazy things tommorrow! So in the morning josh and tom are going Bungy Jumping whilst myself and matt are playing a round of golf on segways! Our choice is a little tamer but we think a lot more fun! In the afternoon all four of us are going skydiving! I am the biggest wimp in the world so I don't know why I agreed to do it but it should be amazing! We went for the 12,000 ft one because that sounded quite high off the ground!
Ill update you on how it went after I've stopped shaking in excitement in a few days time!
Will x
On the way down we have stopped off at a few beautiful lakes that are turquoise in coulour and are surrounded by snow capped mountains! I was tempted to go for a swim until I put my foot in the water and it was freezing cold!
Were now in queenstown which is where all the extreme sports are! We went jet boating today which was a good laugh and a bit scary as we were so close to smashing into rocks at points! Tommorrow is joshs birthday so we decided to do all the crazy things tommorrow! So in the morning josh and tom are going Bungy Jumping whilst myself and matt are playing a round of golf on segways! Our choice is a little tamer but we think a lot more fun! In the afternoon all four of us are going skydiving! I am the biggest wimp in the world so I don't know why I agreed to do it but it should be amazing! We went for the 12,000 ft one because that sounded quite high off the ground!
Ill update you on how it went after I've stopped shaking in excitement in a few days time!
Will x
Thursday, 19 March 2009
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
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
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Somewhere further down Australia
Since I last wrote a post we have done so much I have forgetten most things and lost what order we have done everything in!
the campervans are nearlly coming to an end as we have to give them back on saturday but they have been alot of fun and we have had some crazy times! One evening we were tired so we stopped off on a random road outside a chinese church and cooked some dinner and fell asleep. The next morning we woke up to find ourselves parked in the middle of roadworks with 8 lorrys surrounding us and a traffic light system working each side of us with us in the middle of it! Was very amusing but we quickly got out of the roadworks as soon as we could!
We spent three days in Byron bay which was alot of fun as there was a very cool beach with lots of waves so we spent lots of our time in the water on our body boards! After byron we headed out to Nimbin which is a little town in the middle of the forest which I can officially say is the weirdest place I've ever been! Every shop was selling either drugs or 'herbal remidies' and people would come up to you and offer you drugs, I would probably class it as hippie heaven - but we didn't stay long!
The last couple of days we have been heading down through the great lakes which are very cool and alot quieter than alot of other places, yesterday we found some huge sand dunes that were like a desert they were so big so we got our body boards out and spent the afternoon dune boarding which was very amusing!
Apart from all this we have been chilling on the beach and cooking up tasty meals in the campers - were all expert cooks now!
Oh, we had alot of fun in australia zoo as well! we chilled out with koalas and kangaroos and all that kind of stuff!
Hope all is well,
Will x
the campervans are nearlly coming to an end as we have to give them back on saturday but they have been alot of fun and we have had some crazy times! One evening we were tired so we stopped off on a random road outside a chinese church and cooked some dinner and fell asleep. The next morning we woke up to find ourselves parked in the middle of roadworks with 8 lorrys surrounding us and a traffic light system working each side of us with us in the middle of it! Was very amusing but we quickly got out of the roadworks as soon as we could!
We spent three days in Byron bay which was alot of fun as there was a very cool beach with lots of waves so we spent lots of our time in the water on our body boards! After byron we headed out to Nimbin which is a little town in the middle of the forest which I can officially say is the weirdest place I've ever been! Every shop was selling either drugs or 'herbal remidies' and people would come up to you and offer you drugs, I would probably class it as hippie heaven - but we didn't stay long!
The last couple of days we have been heading down through the great lakes which are very cool and alot quieter than alot of other places, yesterday we found some huge sand dunes that were like a desert they were so big so we got our body boards out and spent the afternoon dune boarding which was very amusing!
Apart from all this we have been chilling on the beach and cooking up tasty meals in the campers - were all expert cooks now!
Oh, we had alot of fun in australia zoo as well! we chilled out with koalas and kangaroos and all that kind of stuff!
Hope all is well,
Will x
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Fraser Island
We went to fraser Island yesterday and it was amazing! Its the largest island in the world that is made just of sand so all the roads were made of sand amd everything around it (although we were quick to point out every time we saw some concrete). Because the roads over there are very very bumpy the only vehicles alowed on the island are 4x4s so our bus was a mix between a bus and a lorry (AKA a 'Borry') - these are very fun and if your sat at the back (as we did) you fly a good 10 feet off your seat every time you go over a huge bump (maybe slightly over exagerated). The day started at 7ish with a walk through the sandy rainforest and then we went to the main beach called 45 mile beach - the cool thing about this beach is that it is also the main highway on fraser island so everyone is driving up and down the beach weaving between people with their deck chairs out enjoying the sun. Also, the beach is an airport aswell so the cars have to dodge the planes coming down as well which is kind of crazy! The next thing we did in the day after we had driven to the end was go one one of these planes! They are 7 seaters but in ours it was just the 4 of us and one other girl and they take you up over the sea where you can see through the clear blue waters sharks and sting rays and things like that and then they flew us over the main island so we could look down onto the beach and the lakes! After this we spent the afternoon at lake Mckenzie which is probably one of the most amazing places I've been. It has a white beach around the edge and then the lake is a fresh water lake that was very very very very very very blue and clear! Whilst in the water we met some guys that were amazied by our tower builing skills (matt on toms shoulders, tom on joshs shoulders and then to finish it off myself picking them all up to build the best tower ever - not quite perfected yet though!) and we grouped together to make a tower of 8 people - probably my prodest acheivement ever.
Today we are travelling down in bruce and Sheila and tomorrow we are hopefully going to Australia Zoo for the day which should be a fun day out.
Will
Today we are travelling down in bruce and Sheila and tomorrow we are hopefully going to Australia Zoo for the day which should be a fun day out.
Will
Friday, 27 February 2009
Campervans, crocodiles and cooking!
So since my last blog we've been up to an awful lot. On our final day in Cairns we went up to cape tribulation for the day which was good fun, cape tribulation is a rainforest that goes onto a beach. Our leader was a guy called billy who kept us laughing all day, the funniest thing had to be in the afternoon when we got back onto the bus and he told all the girls that he'd picked something special for the girls on the bus and the guys were not allowed any so he handed out these leaves to all the girls and told them to rub there hands together - they all rubbed there hands together and it made there haneds smell of farts! he then went round high fiving the guys for the next 5 minutes!
The next day we picked up our campervands - first job was naming them - Buce and Sheila were the designated names. We had a problem with the security bond but thanks to vicky and Roger we sorted it out and then we hit the road! We were meant to have one big camper and one small one but they ended up giving us two big ones which has been a big advantage! Tom and Myself have Bruce and Josh and Matt have Sheila. The campers are kitted out with stove, grill, microwave, sink, fridge air conditioning and lots lots more! At first Tom made me stick to the speed limit but now we've done about 1000 km it has got to the stage where it is fun to to try and set a new land speed record for the campers! During our journey down we've slept in a few camp sites but we've also parked our campers up in some crazy places! We found a car park in the middle of know where where josh managed to get the camper stuck on the way to because it was so bumper which was very funny! We've also been to the whitsunday islands and were off to fraiser island tomorrow.
Up north the weather was a bit wet but now were hitting the sun and it is baking from the minute we wake up all the way through the day which is very cool! Its also very different as were cooking for ourselves now for every meal which has been a good laugh and rather different to thailand where we ate out every meal! Some of our meals have been better than others but overall were doing a good job and dont worry yet mum im not starving to death!
We always seem to park in places that say 'beware of crocodiles' - this doesnt fill me full of confidence that im going tio wake up in one piece but so far i've survived.
Hope all is well.
The next day we picked up our campervands - first job was naming them - Buce and Sheila were the designated names. We had a problem with the security bond but thanks to vicky and Roger we sorted it out and then we hit the road! We were meant to have one big camper and one small one but they ended up giving us two big ones which has been a big advantage! Tom and Myself have Bruce and Josh and Matt have Sheila. The campers are kitted out with stove, grill, microwave, sink, fridge air conditioning and lots lots more! At first Tom made me stick to the speed limit but now we've done about 1000 km it has got to the stage where it is fun to to try and set a new land speed record for the campers! During our journey down we've slept in a few camp sites but we've also parked our campers up in some crazy places! We found a car park in the middle of know where where josh managed to get the camper stuck on the way to because it was so bumper which was very funny! We've also been to the whitsunday islands and were off to fraiser island tomorrow.
Up north the weather was a bit wet but now were hitting the sun and it is baking from the minute we wake up all the way through the day which is very cool! Its also very different as were cooking for ourselves now for every meal which has been a good laugh and rather different to thailand where we ate out every meal! Some of our meals have been better than others but overall were doing a good job and dont worry yet mum im not starving to death!
We always seem to park in places that say 'beware of crocodiles' - this doesnt fill me full of confidence that im going tio wake up in one piece but so far i've survived.
Hope all is well.
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Singapore to Australia
After Kuala Lumpur we flew out the next morning to singapore for our 2 days there! Singapore was good fun and on the first day we went on their version of the London eye which was fun and it was the biggest one in the world! Singapore is kind of odd as it has sky scrapers one side and thyen next door is beaches. When sat on the beach you can see thousands of huge ships out to sea as it one of the biggest ports in the world which is kind of crazy! I cant really remember what else we did in singapore but it was good fun! We saw a band in the evening at a free concert which was a good laugh!
We headed off the next afternoon to australia - it was a random flight that was split into two parts as we stopped in darwin and it was on small planes so we were releaved to land in australia!
The weather in australia is amazing as its around 35 degrees with blue skies! In Cairns there isnt many proper beaches but they have a very cool outside horizon pool with fountains right by the sea. By the side of the pool they have BBQs that are free to use so were going to chuck some kangaroo meat on the Barbie for lunch today! Were picking up our campervans in a few days time so were all looking forward to that!
Hope all is well,
Will x
We headed off the next afternoon to australia - it was a random flight that was split into two parts as we stopped in darwin and it was on small planes so we were releaved to land in australia!
The weather in australia is amazing as its around 35 degrees with blue skies! In Cairns there isnt many proper beaches but they have a very cool outside horizon pool with fountains right by the sea. By the side of the pool they have BBQs that are free to use so were going to chuck some kangaroo meat on the Barbie for lunch today! Were picking up our campervans in a few days time so were all looking forward to that!
Hope all is well,
Will x
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