Dear Amy and Nick Thank you very much for buying us the Wanganui Canoe Trip for our wedding gift. This blog is dedicated to you although, after reading it, you are more than welcome to reject it if you want. As I mentioned in the last blog when we picked up our hire car, Sunny, she came with a free 'Famous Five Go On An Adventure' CD. We haven't listened to it yet. Like the potatoes in a roast dinner, the present from your rich Auntie at Christmas or the Sc...

Dear Nina Thank you very much for kindly putting us up in your lovely home in Wellington while we stay here and even more generously giving up your room for us. It has been so lovely staying in a home for the first time and being so comfortable and easy. Thank you for living so close to town at the top of Majoribanks Street so we can stroll in every day. Thank you for living at the top of a stupidly big hill so I can feel quite how unfit I am when I had to pig...