Hi Everyone,Since Jack last wrote a journal to you all we have travelled around quite alot. We have done the very north of the South island now and have started to work our way back down the east coast towards Christchurch. We found a place in land called Hanmer Springs which have hot thermal pools which hopefully we will be testing out this afternoon.The weather hear is so mixed. One day its t-s*** and shorts weather and really hot and the next were wearing jump...

Hi everyone, I thought it was about time I wrote a journal entry rather than leaving it to Liz all the time. Well what can I say New Zealand is incredible, absolutely beautiful. We've hired a car with a roof box that converts into a sleeping compartment. Having the freedom to travel around and stop where you like is a bit of a revelation. Liz seems to be enjoying doing all the driving but she does keep gazing out her side window rather than on the road, but ...