We spent Monday walking the beach but got too hot inthe mid 30's so repaired to Indian Ocean pub for a drink and lunch! Afternoon Peg shopped and prepared dinner for us all. Tuesday we drove down to Margaret River - mainly freeway or wide road. 200 miles of flat country side - Western Australia does not seem to do hills. The towns down at the end Bunbury seemed fine - we eventually arived in Margaret River at our motel - This one is new and in the town centre s...

I went with Greg to the Perth stadium (Subiaco) today - Sunday - to watch Western Force (the Western Australian regional Rugby team) play Canterbury Crusaders (the NZ South Island regional Team) . With players like Ritchie McCaul and Dan Carter the visitors were favourites, although Force had players such as Matt Gitteau and Nathan Hinds. The game was very entertaining and was quite close with Crusaders winning 29 - 24. The stadium and atmosphere was different to...

Well after 4 weeks in NZ left for Oz. Views on NZ We found the NZ people extremely friendly. We underestimated the distances we had to drive - if we did it again we would plan 3 nights at each location, the roads are nearly all single carriage ways so overtaking has to wait till road is straight or there is a special passing lane. The economy is agricultural - even TV adverts feature selling Tractors. The vegetation is surprisingly tropical and has a jungle f...

We spent Saturday relaxing -Peg decided to catch up on the ironing whilst Liz was working Sat morn at the Library. Peg decided Liz's iron was not very effective and took Greg off to buy her a new one. Upon Liz's return from work at lunchtime , we discovered Liz had the same opinion and already bought a new iron - so the next time you see Liz, just call her 3 iron Liz. We spent the afternoon teaching James and Greg to play cribbage and later we with Liz and Greg ...