These boots were made for spiking...

Hello Everyone,

I'm in Franz Josef - a lovely little town which lies, pretty much, at the foot of some big fat mountains with a huge glacier running (well crawling really slowly) between them - the franz josef glacier is one of three that run down into rain forrest areas in the world. Now you can walk to the foot of the glacier (the half day walk) walk up to the first flat bit (the full day walk) or, like me, jump in a helicopter (a-team style) and fly to about 2/3 up before hiking around these crazy ravines and caves... it's super fun and you get to wear clip on spikes on your boots and use an ice pick - simple things really amused me yesterday (i.e. it's not cold up there in all this ice - mad!!!) anyway by the time we flew back down the whole gang was pretty knackered and as such myself, chris and beccy decided to jump in the hot spa at our lodge... ah memories... well it's not that hard to remember being in the spa as i just got back out again 15mins ago - you can never have too much of a good thing....

st patricks day today so I'm planning to put my last sentence to the test....

take care everyone!