Today was the day we took our flight out of Auckland and finally after 5 incredible months we will be retruning home. We got up as usualy, had a coffee and some breakfast, checked our bags one last time and headed off to the airport. Here we had a coffee with Lou and Lenny for the final time (until they come see us in the UK) while we waited for our flight. When the time came to get on board we said a very sad goodbye and began the preflight process once agai...

Last Day - Jet boat - Meal out Today was the last day of our amazing adventure, we decided to do something pretty fitting to finish off what has been a true adventure... Jet Boating. After a qucik online booking and a final trip out in the car we headed down to Auckland Harbour for our jet boat ride. As we parked up, grabbed some food and headed to the harbour (now wondering weather the maccy D's was a good idea), as we approached the water there sat among t...

Today as Lou and Lenny have the grand kids around we all decided to go to Auckland Zoo! This was a really good day and really nice to spend time with Lou and her family. We got to see all the classic animals you would expect as a few others - we did try and see the infamous kiwi bird but they were too shy. After a long day walking and even chasing around we were all really tiered and just sat and slept in the evening, it's good to be getting used to a home ag...

Today we got up and to make good use of our last few days in New Zealand we decided to book a tour to Hobbiton - obviously this was more my idea than Hanas but she agreed and was secretly looking forward to it. In true style we left a little later than we should of and arrived a little late, however the lovely people at Hobbiton let us on the next tour. We started around 3 o'clock where we got on a tour bus that took us deep into the giant sheep farm that was u...

Over the last few weeks we have been discussing our return home! Due to slight funding issues, our recent news and the feeling that the time is right due to my family leaving for our annual holiday to Turkey (which we decided to crash). This meant we decided we would return back in the next couple of days, so today was taken up with many phone calls, various web searches, booking our 28hour flight home, 2 busses, another flight to Turkey and our accommodation. ...