After a very emotional farewell to Charlie at Bangkok Airport, feeling very lost and lonely I boarded my flight to Nairobi. On arrival in Africa I was met by a driver who took me to Fairview hotel where I was looked after by family friends the Szlapaks, who are the owners of this very impressive oasis in Nairobi with incredible facilities. I was taken into their appartment and given a key-card which gave me access to the entire hotel, this provided me with luxuri...

On the 19th Feb, Charlie and I very reluctantly left New Zealand, headed for Bangkok. We flew from Auckland to Brisbane, Brisbane to Singapore, 15 hours later flew from Singapore to Bangkok. We finally arrived in Bangkok to the sweltering heat, we were greeted by my uncle and taken back to his where we had a swim and then headed off to a local night market to try some of the local delicacies, at first we were a bit sceptical as to what we were eating but after a ...

Apologies for the lack of blog entries but the last month has been hectic! For a small place there is so much to do in New Zealand and Charlie and I have made a good effort to get around as much of the country as possible in the time we have. On arrival in Auckland we stayed with the Sclaters who have a house near the beach in Takapuna, North Shore. From there Charlie, Henry and I went and stayed on their house on an Island called Waiheke where we spend 4 nig...

Kia Ora, The last week has been pretty hectic, first stop was Hong Kong where we had a 24 hour stop-over. After a good flight and being met by Shanes's grandparents we all headed off to Discovery Bay for drinks and dinner over looking the harbour, by now Charlie and I were both very tired but still so excited. The next day we were both up early to make the most of what little time we had, we took the MTR (metro) from Lantau Island to Kaoloon where we had a bri...