Hello all, Not in Tahiti at all, those regular readers of my column will understand why it says that, others won't, but it doesn't matter in the slightest. Suffice to say, we're in Chang Mai in northern Thailand. We arrived in Bangkok on the 7th, waited around for a couple of days and met up with Steve. After another couple of days in Bangkok we took the overnight bus for 11 hours up to Chang Mai. A day in the town was followed by a 3 day jungle tre...

Well, for a start, we're not in Papa New Guinea. The website seems to want to limit our trip to islands i've never heard of and Papa New Guinea. So, flying in the face of that and forever the rebelious types, we've come to Bali (The sheep picture is temporary too, if we've replaced it, ignore this). Bali's a nice place. Actually, when i say nice, i mean the Hotel is nice and the weather is nice. Other things are not so nice. The streets are lined w...

Hello all, we're in Auckland at the mo, our last stop in New Zealand before we head off to Bali on Sunday morning. don't think we've done anything major since my last update, we've not had much time to see everything, so we've generally just been getting a feel for a place before moving on. Those of you familiar with the goegraphy of new Zealand will know that Auckland is in the North Island, so from that you could confidently assume we've changed Isla...

Good day to all concerend, we're both sitting in an internet cafe at the moment, trying to fill the day up, having expected to be swimming with dolphins. Unfortunatly, it was all booked up, much to jen's disappointment. anyway, since i last wrote anything, we finished up in the 'spaceship' we'd hired, by visiting greymouth (which was b******s) and visiting Hanmer Springs (which was nice) in order to make use of the springs themselves (which were b*****...

hello to all from franz josef, home of the franz josef glasier. We're just taking an hour or two out to update everyone on what we've been doing after arriving in Franz Josef after a 4 hour drive from wanaka. we've been in our Spaceship about a week now and we've just clocked up 1000 miles. Thank god the car is automatic, think i would have sacked in the driving if i'd have to deal with a clutch and gear box on these bloody roads. Anyway, since i ...