I know, this is bit of a cheat really, as we are now home, but lets ignore that fact for now, and tell the story of New Zealand. First, Christchurch, a lovely... city. small and very quaint, beautiful, with a sort of english feel to it. Very pretty, and colder climate. We stayed two days, slept for one and arranged oward travel for the next. The spaceship we hired ws called Krissy and she was a bewt. We went up to Kaikora and saw seals basking on the sea shore ...

===Update version === When you use the phrase 'middle of nowhere', i never really appreciated it. Not until I came to Laverton. Two days travel, with a 600km detour around Southern Cross, to Hyden, Norseman and then to Kalgoorlie, due to a bush fire in the Booraborrin area, was a pretty taxing trip. I hope the picture up above does it some justice. Hours and hours of that! This is a short one, but we really are in Laverton right now, and we have two CD's of pho...

G'Day to all!!!! Hope everyones chrimbo went well, any tears? we met someone on our travels who said it aint chrimbo til someone cries! We had a wicked time in Singapore what a great city its even got untouched rainforest bang in the middle of it, cool eh? We stayed in the poshest hotel ever and ordered loads of room service, had a crimbo dinner with TURKEY and everything! Even got the staff to decorate the room, ha. Brilliant! Although we didn't explore the cit...

Hi Folks, we are stil here in KL. we poppped into the internet cafe to update a few things and saw all of our lovely messages which has cheered us up no end! Thanks to everyone, Haiz, Griff, Hev, Haidee, Rory, Sharon and Georgia and Sam particularly. It has been hell of a week, some good, some not so good, but also, we are tired and missing our families and friends a lot at this time of year - we feel very far from home I think. From stolen phones (Sarah's - i ...

hey everyone! We made it to Malaysia after a long bus journey from hell into the Cameron Highlands were we spent the last week in the cool mountain air. We took a tour around the tea plantations which were stunningly beautiful and had tea and scones bizzarly! But its all very colonial you see, the tea plantation is owned by a jock who arrived in Malaysia last century and the family still own and produce a rather lovely cuppa with real milk. yes real milk, not th...