As we arrived into Fiji, we were greeted at the airport by a band playing local music - they were there for everyone, not just us!Our flight was a little late so we decided to get a taxi rather than wait for the next local bus.It cost us $100 FJD (about 35.00GBP) for a 95km, 2 hour taxi ride!I've paid that amount to get home from a night out in Hull in a taxi before. We had pre-booked into the Beachouse, on the Coral Coast for our full 2 week stay in Fiji, as we...

After a 7 hour delay at Wellington Airport, we eventually made it to Auckland, our final destination in NZ, to visit family.As we were so late we missed our dinner at Graham's cousin's house, and only just made it to Auckland airport before Graham's Auntie Christine did, and she was arriving home from England! The next day we borrowed Graham's Auntie's car and went exploring some of the areas we had not seen on our previous visit to Auckland.It was a beautiful s...

We had chosen to stay in Feilding, as it was convenient, the campsite was cheap and the town had been voted 'New Zealand's most beautiful town' 14 times, so we felt we should go and see for ourselves.Maybe it looks better in the summer, but we couldn't really understand how it had won this award so many times!We drove through Timona Park, which runs by the river, but the weather was bad, so not a good day for a walk.We therefore went to the Art Centre as they had...

We got up early, as we knew the drive today would be challenging, due to the memory of a journey we took a couple of years ago in NZ on the SH38.It was only about 250km to Turangi, but took us 5 hours (much better than the 7 hours it had taken us to get from Napier to Roturua, on the SH38, two years ago).Just because a road is called a Highway in NZ, it does not mean that it will be a 'highway' in the sense of a British highway. We began on the SH3 towards Strat...

We stayed a couple of nights at New Plymouth, and thought it was a really nice small city.We stayed at Belt Road Holiday Park which is about 1.5km south of the city centre and on the cliff edge.We had amazing views of the coast from our van windows, and Graham spent much time watching the boats launching at the port.It was definitely worth the $32 (about 15GBP) a night for this and the family that run it were very friendly.Saying that, I think that most people we...