Well it was almost a tearful parting but the van had been given back! We've made Auckland but are already looking through the exchange and mart website to see how much Toyota Hiace's are going to be. We loved the freedom that the van gave us and, after a sleepness night in Auckland due to a drunk group coming in at 3am, loved the space that it gave us. New Zealand has been the highlight of the trip so far. For sheer natural beauty it is heads and shoulders ...

Hello everyone, Sorry it's been so long between blogs. We've been on the North Island for a week now and have done so much it's going to be difficult ot squeeze it all into one blog! For a start the ferry crossing was nothing like a channel crossing! Choppy doesn't quite do it justice and although neither if us have really been sea sick before we both felt awful by the time we arrived in Wellington. None of the old housewife tales worked, closing eyes, looking ...

Hi folks, Steph 'skydiver' Glanville here! Yep, I went through with it and had an awesome experience jumping out of a plane over the West coast of NZ and I wasn't even nervous...until the door opened at 12,000 feet and felt myself falling into nothing, opening my eyes and seeing the bottom of our tiny plane in a big blue sky!! Once I'd got over the shock of falling through the air it was an unbelievable experience, being able to see the mountains (Mt Cook and Mt...

Kia Ora from Queenstown We've made our way down from Christchurch in a round about kind of way and can't believe we've had the van a week already. The rugby was a classic kiwi experience and a cold one as well! The Crusaders won easily and scored the 4 tries they needed (you get a bonus point) to give them a chance of getting into the playoffs and defending their title. Having the van is every bit as liberating as we hoped it'd be. Not having schedules and...

Hello everyone, When Peter Jackson picked New Zealand to film Lodr of the Rings it shouldn't have been a surprise, the only surprise is that no one ever thought of it before. The whole place really looks like a film set, even through the rain! We've had the van for a few days now and once we got used to driving automatic, we've loved every second of it. We've taken the van up to Kaikoura to stay the night and see the seal colony. We arrived in the dark at th...