I think we last left you languishing in Sheffield, where I was busy eating evan's parents out of house and home, seeing as I didn't have to fit into a bridesmaids dress anymore! We continued to have a lovely time in Sheffield, my parents came over from Wales and took us for lunch, and we had a lovely picnic round at Tom, Judy and Emma's house where we played with Neil and Beth's baby Jackson and ate a lot of food. This was followed by much frivolity in Sheffield ...

Well now we're in Canada, having a wonderful time with my relatives, Iris and John, but before we get into that we should really let you know what we got up to when we came back to the UK to distract you all for 2 weeks! I know that you're all dying to know how the wedding went for a start.... well straight off the plane, Rebecca and i went for our dress fittings which were great, but also meant we didn't eat for the following week in paranoia about zips not doin...

So now we're back in the UK, seeing you all, saying hi, then waltzing off again into the sunset, but before we do we wanted to share with you all our observations about new zealand... 1) Dollar pies - they cost a dollar, nuff said. Evan cannot drive past a dollar pie merchant ( ie corner shop) without purchasing one, or if given enough encouragement two.... a dollar is about 35p. Best pie Evan? peppered steak apparently. 2) Organic shops, they are everywhere ...

this could well be our last entry for part one of our journey and new zealand as we begin our extended journey home in a few hours.i'd like to make it a good entry but haven't a clue what we've been up to since raglan, i didn't even remember raglan till i read it back. it's my age.... anyway here goes. we left Raglan and headed up to Auckland in good weather and good spirits, with our car flying along with a will in his engine and a slight oil leak. at aucklan...

it's been a while so we will try and remember where we were up to in terms of our descriptions. Apparantly Jennifer had started to describe our time wwoofing which was involving lots of dice games , hearty meals and grubbing down ticklepenny corner. it carried on like that for a while including a a dash of playing football with Oliver and Anita and friends down the school field, where we substituted in experience for fitness and came off just about level wtih New...