Tuesday and it's blowing a gale! The last two days we've had two coastal drives in glorious sunshine..... First from the Strand to Cape of Good Hope...via the coast thru various fishing pretty villages....and sadly passing townships that go on as far as the eye can see.... ...there is a vast deep cavern between the haves and the have nots........it's upsetting and humbling. The cape of good hope was called the cape of storms...it's where the Indian Ocean meets...

Well it's Five years in since the last Fiji blog and the amazing trip....we are attempting another....the last trip made us decide to sell up in the U.K...and we now live in the French Alps...happily surround by the other Bogans, Eliza, Aiden, Kate and Thomas.....I promise to try and type correctly this time so you can understand what I'm saying!!...I know my last blog was amusingly covered with typos! Starting Wednesday 13 the September we flew to heathrow , le...

Well it's Five years in since the last Fiji blog and the amazing trip....we are attempting another....the last trip made us decide to sell up in the U.K...and we now live in the French Alps...happily surround by the other Bogans, Eliza, Aiden, Kate and Thomas.....I promise to try and type correctly this time so you can understand what I'm saying!!...I know my last blog was amusingly covered with typos! Starting Wednesday 13 the September we flew to heathrow , le...

Sunday 24th. Flight wasn’t that long about 3 and half hours…..phew ! Whooping great climate change… instant….humid, and sunny and cloudy. Very nice welcome with a band playing at the airport everyone saying Bula ( hello) and smiling , kind of wrong foots you a bit. We had a free shuttle, the guy was chatty, but when I said have you been to New Zealand he said not many of us can ever get off this island the wages are so bad, there not t...

Otago Peninsular NZ. Last day in Portobello we went to the remote other side of the peninsular via dirt track roads, very dusty and a lot of the time far to close to the inlet water for comfort with it laping on the roads as you drove, we never saw a soul…………..bumpy gritty surface made it a noisy ride……poor car…… We had a picnic on board and was aiming for a remote cove where they say you can see the yellow ...