Mike and Ben on Tour

Hello!

What a day yesterday was!

We are now expert travellers….we crossed the road! (To be honest it wasnt that hard, we just had to use the bridge that according to Mike magically appeared. It definitly wasnt there the last 4 times he used the phone right next to it! ) Although the major achievement of the day had to be actually getting to Siam square. We hailed a taxi, we rode a tuk-tuk, visited a market AND got suits taylor made.

The country is absolutly mental, it has some of the poshest malls in the world with some of the most expensive designer clothes in, then just round the corner is a massive market selling knock-offs. We spent the morning buying suits that cost the equilivent of a small house over here and the afternoon looking around a massive weekend market buying cheep copies of things for about 3p. Apparantly they are fine, just dont wash them….ever.

Today is just going to be another chill out day preparing for ANOTHER 12 hour flight tomorrow. Last leg now though people, were homeward bound!

Ben and Mike

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Hello there!

Just spent the last two days REALLY relaxing. Our hotel is awesome, nice big beds, sky tv, room service and little guards that salute you every time you leave! We havent really done much appart from eat and lounge about! There is a massive mall next to us we have had a little gander around, but to be honest the shop that just charges 12p an hour to rent a playstation has taken up a lot of time. Ha ha

Its not that we havent tried to explore, yesterday we spent the morning trying to figure out how to cross the six-lane-death-motorway outside our hotel without loss of life or limb. This morning we hailed a taxi, and asked to go to Siam square. The taxi driver laughed and drove off, which we'll be honest hurt. So technically its his fault that we decided to delay our exploring again and just watch the F.A Cup final back at the hotel! Come on you mighty reds!!!

Hope everyone is well, we'll let you all know how tomorrows exploring goes. haha.

Ben and Mike

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Hey all.

Well its nearly all over for another country. Were currently back in Auckland waiting for our silly-o-clock in the morning flight to Bangkok. (Obviously with another stop in Sydney airport. We cant go anywhere without at least a 7 hour stop over in Sydney!)

Had a really good few last days on the kiwi experience. As time was short we only had one day in Queenstown. Mike decided to do 'the thrillogy' which consists of three bungy jumps, the bridge (you get wet) nevis (second highest in the world) and the ledge (freestyle bungy, run off and do flip type things.) So he spent our one day in queenstown running round like an idiot trying to fit them all in. Ben didnt want to miss out on the bragging rights, or the drinking time, so just did nevis.

Our last night with the bus crew was spent getting very drunk, singing karaoke, and drinking out of tea pots (it was an interesting bar)

Were looking forward to Thailand now, chance to chill out and wash Just booked in to a swankey hotel which was half the price of the hostels over here. How good is that! Ben is looking forward to getting away form the sand flies which seemd to have developed a taste for his blood. Mike however is a mozzi delecacy so should get eaten.

Hope everyone is well, see you all REALLY soon!!

Mike and Ben

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Hey everybody!

Were continuing our rather rapid tour of the country. Weather has been a bit rubbish recently, and we havent been able to do some of the activeties we wanted to. We didnt get to go white water rafting (yes, we know we said we did in the last post but we couldnt be bothered to do two updates so tried to kill two birds with one stone and just ended up jynxing it!) We did however go for a ride on the fastest boat in New Zealand yesterday, so not all bad! The sun is even shining today!

Our bus is going for a group meal tonight and then a fancy dress party after. You have to make up your own super hero. Mike is wearing a load of bananas and going as banana man, Ben is going to bed early as he has the flu! Wicked

Think thats it for now, see all you lot in less than two weeks anyway!

Mike and Ben
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P.s Thanks for all the messages of concern. (Sarcasm.) New Zealand went on high tsunami alert at 6pm your time yesterday. (Were fine by the way!)