Gen: a bit late but here we go- So, we are about to leave the wonderful, amazing country that is NZ and corr are we sad to go! We've had a brilliant time here, the weeks have flown by, but looking back we've done alot! Since the last entry, we spent a excellent day at hot water beach, then nursed our pink sunburnt selves with a bottle of wine and a take away. We drove around the rest of the coromandel peninsula and headed for northland in search of some warmer ...

Well then. Alot has been achieved in a very short space of time. But, more importantly, the weather has got a lot warmer over the past few weeks. Due to this we are sitting in shorts and t-shirts in a very nice campsite at Hot Water Beach on the Coromandel peninsular on the north island. The north being at least 5 degrees warmer than the south. Good times. Last time we wrote we were getting ready to go on a wine tour around Blenheim which we hoped would be in at...

Hi all, as you can probably tell from the photos we've been busy and cold, and Ror has been a bit snap happy! Since last time we wrote we headed off to Te Anau for some sea kayaking at Milford sound. We stayed at another long drop campsite but the view of the sunset over lake Te Anau more than made up for the lack of flush. We set off on our kayaking trip after a 5.45am alarm in the pitch black, watched an amazing sunrise as we headed to Milford, but also watched...

Now then. I'm sitting in the sun in a tip top campsite called qbox in queenstown drinking a nice cup of tea while Gen sitting next to me sewing up a hole in the crotch of my trousers! (no catherine, not the ones I'm wearing!) Good times! Last time we wrote we were enjoying all amazing variety of wildlife kaikoura had to offer us as well as enjoying a very well equipped campsite (I believe the gauge is whether there is a hair dryer or not!). However, needs must a...

Hi all, Gen here, After a gruelling 26 hour journey we finally landed in Auckland. Cold, windy and wet, it turns out a tornado hit the city just hours before we landed! I chuckled when the shuttle bus from the airport to our hotel was playing Crowded House. We tried to savour the hotel (our last night with a proper bed and our own bathroom for a while before we collected the van) but after a zombie-like wander around the city on the hunt for food we collapsed in...