Claire's not feeling too good today, and you can actually tell as she no longer owns a voice and cant eat! Lets hope Dave doesnt catch it as it will be twice as bad...A little bit of a bummer as we had planned to go on a cruise to find the dolphins and also skiing will have to wait a couple more days. Never mind, another excuse to relax and do nothing! We got all wrapped up and had a walk into the village to the old lighthouse and soon realised that we could...

Up first thing this morning, to get our shuttle back to the airport area to pick up our campervan from the depot. It was Apollo that were the hire company again, so we were hoping that no silly cows worked there like in Sydney! Fortunatley it was a sound bloke who went through everything with us and even scored us a better deal on the insurance meaning we have no excess whatsoever meaning we can do anything to the van now apart from roll it or drive under a low b...

Snow!! Woke up this morning to see that it had snowed last night! Wahoo! Most of it had disappeared by the time we went to do anything though. We wandered back in the centre, looking round the shops - we need some winter clothes, quickly. We spent some time in the ibrary of all places! Mainly due to the free internet. The city has really grown on us - theres a really friendly buzz about the place and everyone in New Zealand says 'ay?' at the end of most sentanc...

Ready to tackle the land of the Kiwis? We think so! We've had a great time in OZ, but we are so looking forward to exploring the amazing country of New Zealand! We boarded the plane - Dave being a little disappointed that it was a smaller plane than usual with no personal TVs - The dillemma! We were still on top form after being stopped by security and dave being searched for a bomb! It wasn't long before we were flying over snow capped mountains, looking in awe...