After a glowworm has eaten, its digestive process leads to the greenish glow in its backside; the same thing happens to Victoria after a bowl of nachos. Seeing them in the Waitamo Caves (glowworms, not nachos) meant we were essentially paying to look at millions of dots of fluorescent poo. The caves were the first sight-seeing activity for Gill, who has kept us active in central north island and has annoyingly joined Pat on her mission to get us out of bed before...

G'day, Owing to the frightening turbulance on our Air Pacific flight our last ever meal could have been rubbery omlette and a sausage resembling a dog's penis. Thankfully we arrived safely in Auckland ready to face the world's toughest customs control. After ditching our teabags and beaver-skin bikini on the plane we had no trouble with biological checks, but the interrogation at Passport Control made the Spanish Inquisition seem just a little bit nosey by comp...