Dear Val and Tony Thank you for kindly buying us a Queenstown Adventure as part of our wedding gift. The idea of this was to use it on one of the many high adrenaline activities on offer when we were in Queenstown, supposedly the adventure capital of the world. Because most of these involved jumping off something very high with nothing to stop us splattering on the very hard floor except a glorified elastic band, we decided wisely that we were not brave enough t...

Dear The Austins Since we have been in Mexico, we have been experiencing severe electrical malfunctions to speakers, cameras, laptops and tablets. You name it, nothing is working like it should be. I wonder if it is some old Mayan curse, or maybe we have just been lucky up until now. To this extent, I am writing this blog on Donna's laptop, which has a broken Wi-Fi connection so I have no idea when I will be able to upload this onto the Internet. You may not be ...

Dear Lyn, Alan, Shelly, Paul and families Xel-Ha, pronounced shell-ha is one of the most beautiful coastal scenes in the world, situated about thirty miles south of Playa Del Carmen. It is a wide and shallow estuary area with crystal clear water and thousands of fish. It is formed by a natural river that flows through a tunnel of mangrove forests before opening up into tropical forest surrounded open water. The Mexicans, not wanting to miss a trick to make...

Hola Val and Tony Thank you very much for generously buying us Coachella tickets for our wedding gift. We decided to spend the money instead on a holiday to Mexico. You might have been able to work that out from me starting this blog with 'Hola' rather than 'hello' but just in case you are not as fluent in Spanish as me Hola means hello. You see, all this travelling about and doing stuff is actually really hard work and we were feeling a bit tired so we tho...

Dear Mum and Dad Thank you for a wonderful time in America, it really has been the best road trip ever (FACT) and we have done so much and seen so much and had so many laughs and good times, (and I am not even going to mention that incident with dad). And so we wave you goodbye and head off by ourselves to Mexico. And though it is sad to see you go, it is a probably a good time to go. If we spent any more time with you guys we would morph even more into dad's ...