We've just spent 3 weeks in language school learning Spanish and now we're able to order beer with aplomb. Not much else sadly, most of the learning seems to have gone in one ear and straight out of the other. But we do have a lovely couple of certificates to hang on the wall. Brian enrolled in the super swotty swot-swots' class, full of people wearing glasses and lace-up shoes who arrived early for class with their pencils pre-sharpened and a lunch made by th...

We are finally here. The last city in the last country of our trip and at last the opportunity to unpack our entire case and arrange our toiletries in a descending order of height and colour coordination in the bathroom. You can't imagine what a luxury it is to do that - and to actually put clothes in drawers and not have to keep everything in a suitcase because we are moving on again in a day or two. Our flight from Auckland was delayed by nearly 5 hours (th...