rachel thanks see you very soon

Mum Stike appears to be over. I suspect by the time you get here all will be well. Yesterday those booked on flights due to leave were being given priority while they tried to fit the people caught up in the strikes into spare seats. As your flight is London to Newcastle if you find you cannot get a flight you can always come by train. Getting home is always much easier than when disaster strikes on your way out of the country on holiday. Hope your return journey goes well. I am planning to meet you at the airport. Margie is planning to meet Monica. We both have to go back to work so hope the flights work out and are on time! See you soon. Love Mum

Rachel Everything is great here, we've had a fantastic time, off to Auckland tomorrow so only two days left really!! Amazing how fast its gone. Does anyone know what's going on with the british airways flights cos we are on one of them at some point and don't know what's going on, they have stopped the strikes now haven't they?

jjmejessie Hello raggle!! Just checking in! how's everything - sounds rather spiffy!! I'm into my last week of work and then off to norway - yay yay yay!! not much news!! love u lots xxxxxxxxxx

rachel On the subject of a flat i was on the net t'other day and saw a 3 double bedroom on Buccleuch st (you know the one i mean! very difficult to spell) for 600 of your english pounds!! cheap as chips, this filled me with great hope for flat success. love your mate in new zealnd (which is mega ega exciting!!!) love to you both

Leah ann sullivan Esq. and sam check it yo...I mean G'day...obviously...down with the west keal massive. hurrah. a flying wombat man came into work the other night...he did lots of tricks with a piece of string and played a mouth organ...so watch out for those...it was dlying wombat music apparently...could you look into the music wombats make when they fly please? chhers dude. check it yo. keep it real homies. G'day...again hello, sam here. finally I have got to wrestle the computer off leah and actually talk some sense. I actually think that my girfriend, beautiful as she is, is a bit of a menty. see you in october in your new house with all the edinburgh girlies, and Sam of course. Leah says 'we aren not girlies'. Im goingto ignore her. sam w

rachel Sadly we missed out on the mussels!!! But we did see nine whales, about 500 dolphins and 40 or so seals. The south island is amazing i thoroughly reccommend it. Thank you for writing gran, im glad you like the photos, I liked making them! Hope your well love rach

Marlene/Gran Hi Rach & Monica, Really enjoyed your photos and being able to see the places you are visiting. Keep enjoying! Hope you have had some of the green mussels to eat. Your pics make me want to go to the south island. Love, Gran

Mum Glad to hear u r having so much fun in NZ. Sounds much too exciting! Well, Dad and I went fishing last night and I caught my first seatrout with a dozen sea lice on it so it had just come in on the tide and swum up the river. I lost 2 other fish as well. One because I did not tie the fly on correctly - very annoying. Dad caught one and lost one so he was very pleased. We set off home as it was getting dark at about 21.30. I fell flat on my face and thought I had smashed my glasses. There is something to trip over everytime we go and it is worse in the dark. Amazingly, I was completely unharmed. Hope u continue to have sugh a good time. Love Mum

rachel jessica that sounds most excellent, im glad that you remain toilet obbsessed, we are having a great time and we've nearly finished the south island of new zealand which means we're nearly half way through!!!! i can't believe it!! ahh well all is good here though we've been skiing today hurrah!! it was really fun. I will try and see you at some point jester, i miss you too!!xxx

Jessie Hello!! Yay - you got photos up!! It looks amazing and sounds like you're having a great time! I've just returned from global gathering which was fab. We also managed to get cheap cheap vip tickets so enjoyed luxury toilets (possibly the high point of the weekend) and all good things!! I seem to have got a cold now tho - agh well all in the name of a good time! I miss you a lot! Lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

rachel thus far i've enjoyed new zealnd more just because at the end of aus we got a bit bored of rainforests and beaches especially as the weather was terrible and we'd done everything we wanted to because each place offered pretty much the same activities. I really want to go back to the west coast of australia and some stuff on the other side, that's apparantly not as touristy. The thing with nz is that its small so all the different things to do are closer together, and the landscapes very diverse. For example, we are going skiing today, we went horseriding yesterday, next week or so we are going to a maori village, looking at thermal activity, we might walk round the crater of a volcano, do some whale watching and black water raft (go through rivers in caves whilst looking out for glowworms, apparantly like the milkyway!) so theres a lot to do really! enjoy fishing (and on call if you can!) love rach

Dad Great you got the photos on, most fun. If NZ is better than Australia we have to go. I loved Australia, absolutely. So many really great things about it. Brilliant holiday, Even tho' not much fishing considering. Cold and rainy here at present although sun has come out today. On-call this weekend and next, so have to go fishing tomorrow evening... Oh well. See you soon.

rachel at last there are photos on my site hurray!! not all of them obviously but there are some in no particular order!! time in new zealand is going very fast it been brilliant fun so far, better than australia i would say!! in general. hello nick im sorry to hear you've been ill, i hope you get better soon extra extra!! love to all rachel. (we had a great time with tamie and ian!!!) xx

Marlene I just learned from your Mom that you and Moninca went to see Tamie and family. I am so glad that you did that as it is just nice to know where people live. Luke & Anna are fun too! Ian is fun too when there are just a few around. I see you are on the south Island of NZ ... I think Alexa was there a year and a half ago with the geology class she was taking at Uni. I hope you are enjoying yourself. Just take care. Love, Gran