Hi all! How's it going! I'm skipping ahead a lot here. We are now in Australia, have been for a week! Just haven't enough time to get this updated. But I did put more photos up. This time I tried to spare ye all too much scenery! I have loads more so yer all invited to a slideshow when I get back!! We got to Melbourne last Friday. We got to an airport in the middle of no where, who knew there were more than one?!! We were faffing about getting our bags then we ...

Hi guys, Well I just don't have time to keep up to date. That's a good thing!! After being in Melbourne for 2 nights, staying in, as I mentioned, the worst hostel ever (I got chewed by bedbugs - yuck and the place was awful), we hired a car and went on to do The Great Ocean Road. Fab views all along, as usual I have tons of photos. We took our time doing it, 4 days, it was great, lovely and relaxing. Stayed in a lovely hostel the first 2 nights, a complete chan...

Back to Auckland the next day for our last night! There was a BBQ happening that night at Mike´s parents house, Karen´r bro in law. It was in our honour! I think it was to celebrate us leaving NZ!! Was fun. They have a pool table downstairs at their house and a bar! Had some food, some drink, the big dog drooled on me. Was a nice ending. Gone a month, was hard to believe. Time for the next part of the adventure to begin!!

Smelly Rotorua. Karen refused to go there again, she was there the last time she was in NZ. It´s a natural geothermal area and smells like rotten eggs due to the sulphur. I didn´t really mind it that much, I think she is overreacting! Though I did wake up that morning, who in the dorm had farted..then I remembered where I was! ;-) I waked around the free geothermal area first. Like a park, with the sulphur pools bubbling away in various locations. Then I...

More exploring of the North Island! I decided to rent a car for a few days to explore some more. I got a lovely little...Yaris! How nice, was like being at home! Cept it was an automatic! Headed off to Coromandel, was a long drive. Got a bit bored being on my own so long in the car. Again, didn´t get up to too much that eve, had food, went to bed. What an exciting time I had! It was a bit strange travelling around on my own, I liked it and didn´t like it, does...