Right, well left Kaikoura Tuesday morning and drove up to Picton. On the way stopped off at a remote location off the coast and took a walk into the woods where there was a large waterfall and dozens of seal pups playing and swimming around in the water. They get escorted there by their parents, then the parents go off on a 3 day feeding trip, and the pups are too young too be left on the rocks, so they all play together in this remote place that only a handful o...

Well I'm now in New Zealand, and what a trip here!! I had to get the night bus back from Kyoto to Tokyo to get the plane, so another 8 hour journey with no sleep, after discovering that my legs have been bitten to shreds by mozzies. Those b*****s must have been mutants because these bites are HUGE. I did the sensible thing and bought a mosquito clicker device that gets rid of them, but do you think I packed it? NO - of course I bloody didn't. I truly am amazing. ...

Well I started Tuesday 14th October in K's house in Kyoto sleeping on the sofas for a couple of hours as after no sleep on the night bus, and not being allowed into my room until 3pm, I was pretty knackered and needed some shut eye, so in the lounge room it was for me!! It was absolutely pouring it down with rain, so in the afternoon when I'd managed to be allowed into my room, I decided to go for a walk. Not the best idea in the world as within 5 minutes I was c...

Wednesday 8th October 2008 Started my 12 month round the world trip today from Heathrow terminal 5. Was a nightmare as mum drove me to the airport up the M40. Well we gave ourselves plenty of time, but suddenly we came to a standstill as there had been an accident, and we were crawling along at 1mph for over an hour. We were watching the clock and panic was setting in more and more. It got to the point where we had 30 minutes left. I was staring out the window t...