EDIT: People to meet and maybe stay with in New Zealand and australia!

Haha1 Thanks man. Will you be around whilst i'm there?

yeah i'll be around, start a new job in august in hobart

so things you might like to do in hobart could be:
.the cadburys chocolate factory tour/interpretation things (tasmanian cadburys is WAYYY better than english cadburys)
.the museum and art gallery, fauna display, rock display, oldish tasmanian paintings display, old furniture with rare tasmanina timbers display, a mummy(every museum has one! he's stashed under the staircase lol), and random visiting displays. tmag(free)
.Cascade Brewery tour (i'd like to do that, i've never done it)beeer
.'ghost' tour of the penetentiary (maybe)ooo
.salamanca market on a saturday picses
.go up the mountain, either walking, cycle tour, drive up on a nice day. pics
theres probably other things but i cant think of them atm.

and around tasmania easiest if you have a car or do a backpacker tour (i dont know what they're like):
.visit the Tahune airwalk (a suspension walkway though the canopy of a forest) and all the big old trees down that way treees
. the huon valley (on they way to or from the tahune airwalk) promo site (my gf might even be able to take you there since she lives down that way)
.bruny island boat tour, see dolphins and fishies and seals and rock formations in the cliffs and stuff shiney website
. go to richmond for a daytrip (north of hobart little town with a few nice shops, two mazes and the oldest still in use bridge in australia richmond village
. go to port arthur, old penal settlement 100km NE of hobart and the other colonial sites surrounding it.port
. freycinet national park & wineglass bay on the east coast (stop at kates berry farm yumm on the way there) purdy and
. the bay of fires further north of freycinet (Lonely planet top 10 places to visit in the world 2009) pics

ok so i havent covered the north or west of the state yet, but i think thats a good start for you to consider, oh also there are a few different wildlife parks near different places i've mentioned, zoodoo at richmond, tas wildlife park down near port arthur, bonerong wildlife park up the derwent valley (upriver from hobart) i'll think of a nfew more things up north later.

Dude, you had me at brewery!

How do you fancy doing that one with me?!!! Beer is always a good way to get to know people!

I arrive in Hobart about 4pm on Friday 15th October.

yeah sounds good! will just depend when i have a day off.

theres also the boags brewery in launceston that you can do a tour of.

Well, i'm around for 2 weeks, so let me know when you're free. Would be great to hook up and put a face to the name.

do you have any other plans at any time? i could probably make my days off together over a weekend or something (or possibly even get a day or two extra off).

also my gf said she wants to go to the brewery aswell, and apparently she is bringing her friend because they were meant to do it last year, its turning into a party!

Well, I have no plans at all for Tasmania, so we can meet up anytime you're free and i'll plan my stay around you. Are there any good hostels in Hobart that you know of?

Are you on Facebook at all? just that I think Facebook is going to be the easiest way to keep incontact with people and arrange things whilst I'm away. If you are, then my name is David Wills, and i'm from Liverpool as you know. I recently became friends with rouge dragon, so you could also find me through her, providing you had her as a friend too obviously.....i'm ranting again. *slaps self around face.

let's meet up in NZ somewhere man, Im over from 10th sep Will probably spend the first month in the north island and head down to south island to meet friends start of october..

yay! definitely!!!!! that has to happen!

request sent!

saaaweeet!!! any idea of where nd when youre going to be in all the different places in NZ?

I'm hiring a camper, so i could be in any place at any time! Get in touch with me...preferably through Facebook, when you arrive in NZ and i'll endeavour to meet up with you somewhere!

How bizzare is it that we only live a few hundred miles from eachother, but we're travelling several thousand miles to meet eachother?!!!

haha totally!! Ok PM me your real name/email and will get in touch...camper eh?? interesting..!

i've sent you a friend request already on FB. yep, a camper...i cant wait to go touring in it!

I'm also thinking of stopping by HoP in Christchurch, hopefully i'll get to meet some of the team that run this awesome online community!

yep man for sure Has to be done, its like the spinner's mecca! Xx

P.S. duly added

Right guys, i've explored the northlands and i'm about to set out to discover the coromandel and rest of the north island on sunday/monday...anybody fancy showing a lonely scouse traveller around?

roster requests are out, so im going to request 16th, 17th, 18th of Oct off to do stuff if you're interested?

Thats good for me man!

roster came out today, got the time off i'll book us for the brewery tour next week!