Our time in the North Island has flown by and the last part of of our journay is coming scarily close, even though we still have 6 weeks left. We arrived in Wellington at about 5 in the evening from the ferry and nearly had a heart attack as we drove onto a motorway! It was rare to see a two lane road on the South Island! The shock of such a big city (in England's terms it's not big atall) caused harriet the navigator to get all flustered so we drove around lost ...

We've been in New Zealand for 2 1/2 weeks now and it's flown by! There have been many stunning views, a few photos (we've just posted a small selection for you to look at), a couple of 'incidents' involving the hire car and lots of nice food and wine and beer (the wine and car incidents are not connected incidentally).We flew into Christchurch and spent a few nights there in a beautiful homely hostel. On our first night we stupidly rushed to the TV to watch Neig...

We stayed in Sydney for 5 days and decided it would be fun place to be sent to work in for a year or so.  It has lots af nice restaurants and cafes and parks and beaches that we could definately get used to!  We took millions of photos of the bridge and the opera house because its just so amazing to see them in real life.  When we first saw the opera house we actually thought it was a bit yellow and not that pretty.  It does look better in the night w...

Well, Harriet has given me the wonderful privelage of writing obout the day that we dedicated to Neighbours. I'll try not to babble on too much. I've written 5 pages about it in my travel journal and still haven't finished my account of events... It was quite a dull day when we got up at 10, but that didn't dampen our way over-excited spirits. The neihbours bus didn't pick us up until 1 and we spent all the time leading up to that washing, and putting on nice cl...

BYRON BAY Byron Bay is a lovely place about 4 hours South of Brisbane that has a reputation as a bit of a hippy town and surf haven. We loved it there, and on our first night who should we bump into in the supermarket but Adam and Alex. We made another meal together, and it was like we'd made real friends! The next day we did a bit of clothes shopping with the boys, which was a bit weird and we ended up splitting up- they were obviously not usewd to shopping wit...