I can hardly believe the time has come to write our last blog of New Zealand! Although we still have two days left, we thought it only seemed right that we finish on a note, which is in keeping with the rest of our New Zealand experience. Tomorrow we head out of the Coromandel Peninsula and head straight to Auckland. As you all know we are not really big city people and so we predict we will be spending our last day on the island getting final jobs done and sto...

We have now reached 4000 km's and counting! After another frosty night I dropped Netti off in sulphur city Rotorua while I had a bash at white water rafting. The highlight being a 7m drop at Okere falls, awesome! Had an absolute ball on the Kaituna River including swimming alongside the raft and down a rapid, and being thrown overboard when we collided into another raft...more fun than it sounds I assure you. That evening we had a Maori cultural experience and ...

Welcome to Welly! We decided last minute to change our ferry crossing from late Friday night to first thing Friday morning so we could have an extra day on the North Island. This turned out to be one of our better decisions, as the weather in Picton when we left at 7am was British style miserable! However, we arrived in Welly and the sun was shining! What a lovely day in Wellington, it's hard to believe that it's NZ's capital city as there is very small busines...

Hi everyone! I am happy to report that it has stopped raining yey! We left the soggy West Coast behind and drove the East Coast to find some extremely welcomed sunshine :) Nelson was a nice little place where we managed to catch up on some very overdue blogging and have a look around the shops before heading out on the road again. We have done quite a bit of driving over the last few days to make sure we could fit in all our East Coast itinerary, although it d...

Hi folks! After an interesting night fighting sand flies we arrived ready to hike Fox Glacier! Our poor campervan Bob has been doing a great job making it up and down all these mountains so we were glad to finally be giving it a day's rest! Today was all about walking! After getting kitted out with our boots, waterproofs, hat, mittens, over trousers and crampons…(Spikes for your boots to grip the ice) we climbed onboard the retro Fox Glacier bus, which was co...