Wednesday 27th November We drove through the centre of Christchurch and saw what remained of the Cathedral and the Central Business District on our way to pick up a new person. Our first stop outside of Christchurch was a small…
Wednesday 27th November We drove through the centre of Christchurch and saw what remained of the Cathedral and the Central Business District on our way to pick up a new person. Our first stop outside of Christchurch was a small…
Sunday 24th November The approach to the South Island through the Marlborough Sounds was truly beautiful and so I made my way to the top deck. It looked calm from the comfort of our private lounge but I was nearly…
Thursday 21st November After leaving the village we made our way to the Huka Waterfalls on the Waikato river. The word Hukanui in Maori means Great Body of Spray and whilst it was a fairly small waterfall compared to some…
Monday 18th November The day didn’t get off to the best of starts because during the night I had been in contact with my dad about the moneycorp card issue. Not only was it still not possible for me to…
Thursday 14th November I won’t go in to details about the flight except to say whilst I’d tried to be polite and to charm the staff at the check in desk my attempts not only proved unsuccessful but downright backfired.…
Monday 11th November I made sure I got to the airport with plenty of time to spare because the last thing I wanted to do was to encounter any unexpected problems resulting in me losing one of my nights of…
Thursday 7th November As we said goodbye to Odka and boarded our final train at around 7am I (we) knew that this stage of our journey was coming to a close. For all of us except Sara it was the…
Monday 4th November continued… We were finally out of Russia. Kind of. Technically we weren’t in Mongolia either and the two attendants on our carriage were still the stern faced sterotypical Russian ladies Elena had warned us about in Moscow…
Saturday 2nd November The final nights sleep on the train was pretty terrible. I’m not sure what caused this but there had been a number of changes to the timezone and i think the school kids were staying in Moscow…
Tuesday 29th October The race was on. Had I been on my own I’d have been at the station at the time we left the Kremlin. Most of the group agreed they’d have done the same. The mission ahead looked…