The Adventures of Cholly

'If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it...' The Adventures of Cholly continue and following our time in New Zealand, we headed back to Australia to make our way up the East Coast over 3 weeks and 3 days. We flew in to Sydney from Christchurch where we spent our first 4 nights at 790 on George St Backpackers. We had a private double room, nothing fancy but a great base in a good location. We spent the majority of our first day in 'Happy Travels' planning our trip up the coast. As we only had a limited amount of time we wanted to make sure we could fit in everything that we wanted to do as well as ensuring we made it up to Cairns in time for our next flight, so whilst winging it is nice we ended up pre-booking nearly all of our activities and accommodation. Once that was sorted we took ourselves on a night time walking tour of the city to get our first glimpse of all the major sights - we ended up walking around eight miles! The next day we got

'Sweet assssss bro' If you're wondering why 've used the subtitle 'Sweet assssss bro' for this blog post then you've clearly never been to New Zealand, or you would know that it's many a kiwi's favourite phrase - one of our bus drivers used the phrase to finish off the majority of his sentences! But, it is quite fitting for this post about our time in the South Island because it was, you've guessed it... sweet as! Many people say the South Island is better than the North, and I can confirm it is true!    For starters, the scenery in the South Island is second to none - as soon as we stepped off the ferry from Wellington to Picton and started our journey through the Marlborough Sounds I knew we were going to be in for a treat for the next week and a half.    Our first stop in the South Island was a place called Kaiteriteri, on the edge of Abel Tasman National Park. We made the most of the sun and all headed for the beach as soon as w