Vancouver and BC (20th -28th June 2009) So we had a safe journey into Canada and parted ways with Sarah and Chris for a few days. My friend Helen picked us up from King George sky train station and we headed to Langley, about 30 miles east of Vancouver. It was lovely to catch up with Hel, who I last saw a 2 years ago when she came back to Swansea to visit family and friends. She has a three year old daughter, Danae who is absolutely adorable and was sound aslee...

On Thursday morning Darren and I arrived into LA, The U S of A!!!! We were greeted by two familiar smiley faces....my sister Sarah and Bro-in-law Chris. It was lovely to see them after 7 months of travel and after a few hours of talking and catching up, it felt lke we'd only seen them last week! So over the last three weeks we have travelled more than 3500 miles and seen so many amazing cities and sights! Im going to cram as much into this blog as possible so i...

French Polynesia - Bora Bora & Ra'iatea May 28th-June 3rd Welcome to Bora Bora, ‘The Pearl of the South Pacific’ as Captain Cook described it when he sailed past in 1769. We caught a tiny little prop plane from Mo’orea back to Tahiti which took all of 6 minutes, worth it just for the views of the lagoon, was really funny!! We then caught a bigger prop plane to Bora and arrived just after sunset, so we were able to see the beautiful island from the air...

French Polynesia - Tahiti and Mo’orea Well where do I start? I’m not going to write a really long bored because you’ll all be very jealous of our mostly lazy paradise experience, the part of our trip we have called the ‘real honeymoon time!’ We arrived into Papetee, Tahiti’s capital on Thursday 21st in the evening, however we did leave NZ on Friday 22nd in the afternoon, so we have just gained an extra day, does that mean we’re older now????? Fun...

New Zealand - North Island So on Monday 11th May we crossed the Cook Straight and headed to Windy Welly, which indeed it was when we arrived! My head cold was in full working order and Darren had a bad throat. We were both tired and didn’t have the energy to do much upon our arrival. We went up to Victoria Summit which overlooked the entire city and nearly got blown away! Wellington was built on a big fault line and has plenty of movement every year, the parli...