We flew into a tiny Pacific island called Rarotonga and were greeted by a local playing some Caribbean type tunes on his stage at Custom immigration control. What a way to be greeted at 23:30 in an airport, we knew we had landed into Island life. We were picked up and were shuffled off a short distance away to an amazing beach bungalow in the middle of nowhere. At first as we were driving, I thought WOW you've done something right in life to end up in a holiday ...

I stopped updating my blog after Australia so in an attemp to complete my journal I have copied Trev's entries and made some ammendments. Pah we were there together : ) We flew into Auckland on a short haul flight where we were kindly greeted by a Taxi shuttle that Trev's Aunt had organised. We were whisked away down south to Hamilton where we stayed with Trev's Aunt Glynis and cousin Terran. They were wonderful and made us feel extremely welcome. Glynis was...

I have been really rubbish and neglected the blog for the past couple of months but will try and remember everything we did whilst in Australia. We had such a lovely welcoming in Brisbane from Trevor's friend Dean who picked us up and took us to his place on the Gold coast. Dean and his beautiful wife Candice have a stunning house just outside Surfers paradice. It was awesome to settle in at theirs for a few days and enjoy the beauty of the gold coast. Despite ...