Good morning all and welcome back. So, when we left off in our last blog we were anticipating departing Sydney on wednesday afternoon at 13:00 after booking the Greyhound the day before. Our luck deserted us (again!) though as, thanks to the flooding along the east coast and the subsequent road closures, our bus was cancelled until the following day, leaving us as a result with an extra day in Sydney. First job for the day was to decide what there was for us to...

G'day mate(s)!! So after departures finally opened following the last blog entry, we departed New Zealand bound for Sydney, Australia… We arrived at about 16:10 local time and as we dismounted the plane you could feel the difference in temperature instantly between here and what we had become used to in the south island of New Zealand. Even though it was late afternoon it was still really bright and mild. Gold star for Oz already. We had been warned a while...