Um... Woho? :)

If you're wondering about the title, that was me trying to translate "tjoho!" :). Anyway, we've made our way to Picton after two long bus trips, starting yesterday, from Queenstown to Christchurch and Christchurch to here. In a few hours we'll board the ferry to Wellington and then stay there for two hours before meeting up with Ross and Jean on the 2nd in Featherston. Ross is an old theatre friends of mine and we'll be celebrating Easter with them in Foxton!

Ok, I know that everyone already knows this, but I'll write it again: Skydiving is AWESOME. The views were just spectacular and although I was very, VERY nervous on the way up I would so do it again if I get the chance. Once all the adrenalin had gone away I crashed, completely exhausted, but it was amazing. The day after I went on a much more relaxed day trip to Milford Sounds, one of the most spectacular places in NZ. It was a full 12 hour journey, from 7 am to 7 pm, since it was a four hour drive from Q-town and then four hours back again and a cruise in between. Definitely a must-do for people coming here! Amazing scenery with huge mountains, rainforest, remnants of glaciers and a myriad of waterfalls. Definitely a good way to cap off our Q-town stay.

Hope you're all well, big hugs from us both!

Tjoho!

Nu ar vi tillbaka i Picton efter tva dagars resande. Vi stannade under natten i Christchurch. Trotta ar vi bada tva och mer resande ska det bli! Om nagra timmar aker vi tillbaka till Wellington dar vi ska spendera tva natter innan vi traffar Sofias van Ross. Vadret har ar underbart for tillfallet :) Hoppas ni har det bra! Kram!

Queenstown!

So we made it to the adventure capital of New Zealand. The scenery is even more stunning than I remembered it and I can't wait for my skydive tomorrow! While in Dunedin we managed to catch up with two old friends of mine and ours, great to see you guys and see you soon we hope! We did some sightseeing, had a great night out and trained karate. Since this was our last chance of training we have now sent home our gi's. What a difference it makes! Our bags are over two kgs lighter and we can fit in heaps more :).

We're not really sure how long we'll stay here since I really want to se Milford Sounds before we make our way up the coast again. Jonatan wants to do river surfing and we'd both love to spend a day or two in the sun again :). So we'll see what happens. We both love the town and with all the people our age around here we're sure we can find something fun to do! :) It just feels weird hearing Swedish from all directions...

Lots of hugs to all of you

Bilder

Vi har lagt upp lite nya bilder :)

http://neoexotrap.bilddagboken.se/p/dayview.html?directlink=1&t=1269298801&id=449213487

Kram!

Dunedin

After a long trip we've finally arrived in Dunedin. Five hours from Picton to Christchurch and six hours from Christchurch to Dunedin with a short sleep in between, it'll be good to settle down for a while now. We'll stay here until at least Thursday since there are karate trainings on Monday and Wednesday that we really want to go to! It'll be the last trainings before sending home our gis. It's a really nice town as well so we'll see what we can do around here.


Hope you're all well, big hugs from a (from time to time) sunny Dunedin!

Wellington, eng. version

As promised, we'll try to write in both Swedish and English from now on :).

We've arrived in Wellington, safe, sound and, by the time we found the backpackers, very sweaty. Apparently we found one of the highest located hostels in Wellington, up on the Terrace, but it's a really nice place. We share a room with four others, which will be an interesting experience since we haven't had to share a single room so far!

We'll move on to the South Island tomorrow. The ferry leaves as 6 pm and arrives at 9 pm so we decided to stay a night in Picton and then continue south on Wednesday. After that we're aiming for Dunedin to train karate with the Jundokan people we met in Japan. It'll be really nice to meet them again!

Unfortunately Jonatan has been homesick for a month so he's decided to go home early instead of continuing to Japan. I'll go on, no way I'm missing out on three weeks of sushi and ramen, but we'll take different planes from Wellington on the 7th of April. He'll be home again by the 8th :).

Lots of hugs

Wellington

Halla igen!! Vi har nu akt vidare till Wellington efter en underbar vecka hos Alistair. Vi har checkat in pa ett backpacker stalle har sa vi delar rum med tre andra... xD
Imorgon ska vi vidare soderut. Vi ska pa vagen stanna och trana med Nya Zeelands Jundokan klubb! Ska bli kul att traffa dom igen. (traffade dom i Japan under var forra vistelse dar)
Tyvarr har jag (Jonatan) extrem hemlangtan och har haft det nu i en manad sa jag har bestamt mig for att aka hem tidigare. Kommer att aka hem efter var Nya Zeelands vistelse sa det drojer ytterligare tre veckor innan jag kommer dock. Sofia fortsatter sjalvklart till hennes vanner i Japan. Det gar tyvarr fortfarande trogt med att ladda upp bilder.
Massa kramar hem!!

Alistair

Hej igen!! Vi har nu akt vidare till Sofias gamla karatekompis Alistair, vilken kille! Vi har nu vandrat i Nya Zeelandsk urskog, badat i en flod (Sag ut som Sagan om ringen), snorklat efter en slags musslor i havet (paua), atit valdigt god mat och sett pa film. Alistair och Rose har ett underbart hus och tre jattefina katter.
Vi har ocksa hunnit med 3 karatetraningar och gatt pa gym med Alistair. Kroppen ar alltsa lite sliten efter allt simmande och tranande. Karaten som vi tranar har ar samma stil som var egen men en annan "familj". Det ar for det mesta endast sma saker som ar annorlunda.

Vi vet att ni vill ha bilder men Internetuppkopplingen har ar inte den basta sa det drojer ett tag till. Vi ar iallafall solbranda nu eftersom det har blivit mycket varmare.

Kramar!!

Nya Zeeland del 2

Det ar svart att tro det men vi har redan varit har i fyra dagar. For mig kanns det som om jag knappt akt harifran eftersom jag kanner igen mig overallt men for Jonatan ar allt nytt. Vi har hunnit trana tva ganger redan (nej, jag kan inte ga normalt)och spenderade hela dagen idag i Masterton, den narmsta staden harifran. Imorgon ar det brollop med allt vad det innebar och pa sondag blir det stor bbq har med typ trettio pers. Pa mandag aker vi vidare till Alistair (en gammal van fran karaten)och hans fru Rose.

Massa kramar fran Nya Zeeland!

Nya Zeeland

Nu ar vi har!! Vilket stalle. Naturen ar som i Sverige fast med palmer och hogre berg ocksa. Resan gick bra tills Sydney. Dar hade vart plan gatt sonder pa nagot vis sa vi fick vanta 3h extra. Men efter detta kom vi antligen fram. Sista dagarna i Laos var underbara! Vi akte kajak nerfor floden och badade i en stor bla lagun. Tydligen sa skulle det vara oroligt i Bangkok men detta markte vi inte av. Nu ar vi hos Sofias gammla vardforaldrar. Valdigt trevliga manniskor. Det kommer att bli tre Karatetraningar under kommande vecka! Ska bli valdigt kul. Dock sa tror vi att var resa till Okinawa uteblir pga kostnaden. (Budgeten racker ej till resorna). Sa vi far trana extra mycket har i Nya Zeeland.
Pa schemat framover har vi brollop och sightseeing. :) Alltsa inte vart brollop utan det ar Sofias vardbror som ska gifta sig :P
Vi ska forsoka att ordna ett Nya Zeelanskt mobilnummer sa snart som mojligt sa att vi kan ringa hem!

Hoppas att ni har det bra dar hemma! Kramar ifran oss.