So me and Jacqui have had our week in the South Island - we managed to cram in loads, but didn't really have enough time! We flew down to Christchurch last Monday - the flight was really bumpy - the minute we hit the south island, the clouds closed in and it was raining - dodgy landing, but we made it! We arrived in Christchurch to thundering rain, and set about trying to hire a car. After the first 4 companies we tried had no cars at all, we were lucky to fin...

We headed up to Auckland last Saturday to catch our flight to Sydney. Mr Jingles held up well and had no problems! We got to our friends and ended up having quite a big night out before our flight, which is never a good idea! With an early morning flight on the Sunday, we were both feeling a bit worse for wear, but got to G&G's apartment about 12.00 on the Sunday. The apartment was lovely with a nice view, and it was good to see everyone - Lynne and Ian w...

Christmas and New Year have been and gone, and i haven't written in this thing for ages!! We had a good time here, the weather was good (apart from on Christmas Day)! On Christmas Day we got up, had sausages on the barbie for breakfast, then went out for a surf. Our Canadian friends and their family came round for Christmas dinner (another bbq) and we went out for another surf! On New Years, we had some friends round, then went down to the beach for the cou...

Well, a lot has happened since we last wrote in this thing! Jack's mum and sister came out to visit us and we have moved house again! Teresa and Joanne arrived in Tauranga (eventually after missing their flight from Auckland) on Friday 23rd November. After staying one night in Mount Maunganui, we headed for the Coromandel. We travelled for most of the day on Saturday and arrived in Coromandel Town in the evening. It was late ish when we got there so we jus...

haven't got any pics of Raglan yet, this one will have to do!! Anyway, after getting sick of there being no surf in one of the 'biggest surf towns in NZ' we decided to head for Raglan. It was a bit of an eventful journey, as the van was playing up quite a lot and we broke down quite a few times! It keeps stuttering and cutting out while we're driving along, so we have to stop, play around with the engine a bit and then get going!! There was another 2 friends ...