The tour of New Zealand is coming to an end, so we're starting to pack in everything we wanted to do here...which is kinda mental. No fear, still time for a blog update....brace yourself cause its a biggy! Suze left you in Franz Josef, the first glacier. Lovely place, but pricey to do ice climbing, so we packed up our shell (like tortoises we are, moving with our home on our back), refilled the radiator (the leak was getting stupid now, every 50km or so I was ...

Hello from the coldest place on earth! Oh... Mike tells me that's not strictly true... but as I sit here with numb hands and a slightly blue frost-tinged nose, I feel pretty confident in saying that this is one seriously cold country! Having just spoken to my mum who tells me that it's 30 degrees at home (what?! why do these things always happen when Mike and I aren't there to enjoy them?!), let me reassure you all that our glamorous travels aren't always quite a...

God this blog is getting cobwebs...what a disgrace we both are not giving it the love it craves. In honesty, we're at the point where we need to be sending stuff to recruitment bods back home and climbing back onto that career ladder...all so we can do this again some time! But less of the excuses, I'm in an internet booth that is coin operated...and they don't give you much time so here goes. Suze left you on the edge of your seats in Bayleys Beach. Well, we a...

Only 12 days after entering the country, finally an entry for New Zealand! After leaving Fiji, we were rested, Mike was tanned (needless to say, I was frazzled) and we were looking forward to some of the famous NZ sunshine that we'd heard so much about from other travellers - so it was a bit of a shock to the system to arrive in Auckland to a very grey, cold day. Though what started as a bit of a damp drizzle, quickly escalated to a full-on downpour. Those Kiwi r...

Well here we go..the quickest blog entry ever!!!! So, we've arrived in Fiji, and as soon as I'm off the plane at Nadi my legs are roasting in my jeans. Its hot! What you'd expect really from a tropical pacific island, but coming from a nippy Australia it was a shock. The insane taxi driver, Jaswant, picked us up and drove through the pitch black (lighting doesn't really exist out here) to the jetty for Robinson Crusoe Island where we planned to stay three days...