Blimey. (or as our Israeli friend pronounced it; bli-may). There has been very little let up in the pace of our trip down the east coast of this massive country. It is such a well travelled backpackers route that everything is geared to keeping you busy and, more importantly, keeping you spending. We have done our best to fully immerse ourselves in this world that seems aimed at travellers a decade younger than us. But, it would seem that it is starting to get th...

G'day. We have only been in Australia 2 weeks and yet I feel we have done enough things to fill up a few months. I write this while sitting in the red hot sun at Airlie Beach and am looking forward to a few days of doing nothing in place called Town of 1770, for which we leave tonight at midnight. Our transition from New Zealand to Australia has been a strange one. The differences between the two countries are greater than either of us expected them to be. First...

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...