We arrived at our hostel in Hunter Valley.The road was called Wine Country Drive - very apt! We jumped in the pool - what a luxury! We were so hot and the water was just what we wanted after a hot drive. We booked a wine tour for the next day and then we began Day One of the cookery school.The teacher was Rachel and the student was Chantelle.Risotto (or Rosalita) was on the menu! Chantelle was an excellent understudy and made a beautiful dish which went down well...

New Zealand had been great to us but we were both ready to move on; on Saturday 11th December we were up early to catch a flight to Melbourne, Australia. Having picked up a few bits in duty free we boarded the plane and got ourselves comfy for a 4 hour flight. The flight was made a hell of lot easier by taking advantage of the free alcohol on board; we consumed a couple of bottles of sparkling wine between us and found ourselves in a merry state (see Melbourne ...

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We arrived in Auckland with relatively low expectations; everyone we'd met along the way had only said bad things about it. Well, it just goes to show you need to take things with a pinch of salt because Auckland is such a cool place. OK, so there are lots of sky scrapers and loads of people but as major cities go, i really liked it. We checked into our Base hostel and our room could only be described as a prison cell. With no windows and no room to swing a cat,...