The 'Lobster' has been boiled alive and devoured. It was ours for just a little bit. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end and this particular travelling adventure is sadly nearing completion. Excitingly, after negotiating the wild goose chase that Qantas presented us via telephone, internet and offices, we've managed to bring our flights forward to tonight. This means we won't have time to explore Lima but then I'm not sure we really want to anywa...

Greetings Christmas Shoppers, While most of you are probably braving the windswept highstreet to start that all important chrimbo shopping (only 23 days left folks) Dan and I are currently sweltering in the supposedly most arid place on earth, yes we're in the desert, the Atacama desert to be more precise. For those of you, who like my dear dad, are asking 'why on earth have you gone there?', I'll tell you. Well apart from it being in the way of our route to Pe...

Hola! Si, we speaking the espanyol. Badly. Although we are managing to order food (sorry steak) successfully, which seems to be the only thing that matters as seemingly everybody in the service industry in the whole wide world speaks English. Which is very good or very bad whichever way you look at it I suppose. We´re going to try and have a Spanish lesson soon since that ´Teach Yourself Spanish´ present remained largely unopened (Sorry Mum. Yes I...

Hi folks, hope you enjoyed the 'guest blog spot' from Mr Edwards, I wish now we'd made it a regular feature - it would've saved us some brain power and a small fortune in internet cafes. But anyway, now that we have regained control of the blog again we thought we'd spend our last day and last few Kiwi dollars on some well needed internet time to give you our latest update. Ok, so where have we been and what have we been up to in the last few weeks I hear you cry...

Dan and Beth in NZ- a special guest report by Bryce EdwardsBloody Brits! They come to my country and all they do is sleep in a lot, mooch around, complain about the weather, and drink endless cups of tea. It seems that you can take Dan and Beth out of Britain, but you obviously can't take the British out of Dan and Beth.I've learnt a lot about the British by having Dan and Beth to stay. They arrived in Christchurch at the start of last week, looking incredibly em...