Well we are on wind down now as only a week left in New Zealand now. The time has just flown by and it seems hard to believe that we have been away for over 7 weeks already. We have seen some lovely sites and done some crazy things but have enjoyed all of it.

Darren has walked more than he wanted to - I keep telling him its only an hour/2 hours walk and they turn into 4 hour walks (convinced him to walk 15km today along the Karangahake gorge). I have also egged him into bungy jumping, swooping and he has talked me into zorbing and schweebing (a new toy in NZ which is a plastic capsule with a set of pedals in that you you sit in a ride round a track in the air).

A couple of days at the beach are in order before moving onto the cook islands for a week.

Ps: boy are we glad that we are not french today as they have knocked NZ out of the world cup. At least Oz went out too