We had a lovely time in Sydney. The weather was really good and we were well looked after by Ingrid and Loui. We has a few simply relaxing which weirdly was much needed. Ingid took us up to the Blue Mountains (so we're told!). The weather was very English... wet and cloudy. We have renamed them the White-out mountains as you could see nothing. We did a few little walks, had some cake and looked about (thanks Ingrid). Jo's Birthday fell on Easter Sunday (which a...

Oppsss..... sorry we've not written in ages. The car only had a CD player so we couldn't plug in the MP3 players so after a few weeks with ONE CD and no radio (aerial broke off) we treated ourselves to a two more cheap CD's. Heaven! Having got stuck in Mission Beach for a few days due to floods we moved on down the coast to Airlie Beach. Airlie Beach was nice and we were below the bad weather. We chilled there for about 4 days waiting for perfect weather to go ...

We left Auckland and once on the plane there was an announcement saying we would have to briefly land in Brisbane. It had something to do with fuel and the Army. The cabin was noisy and it was hard to hear. That was a bit worrying! Both landings were VERY bumpy. We think it was the runway. It took ages to get through Customs as we had the stupid tent with us. It'd been pouring down when we left and so we couldn't get it dry. Customs were worried it was river wa...

We're not actual in NZ any more as we flew to Oz on the 24th. Just to let you know our final mileage in the banger was 6500km. One break isn't really that bad after that amount of up hills and bends. A round up of Auckland was that it was ... wet! Bye NZ!

Sorry for the lack oh photos! Some will hopefully come later. We've done lots since we left Wellington. We headed up to the Whanganui River and spent a night there. The next day we drove up and over to Lake Taupo where we had Valentine's Day. It's the biggest lake in NZ and is the size of Singapore. It was created by a Volcanic explosion a hundred times more powerful than Mt Vesuvius! Very pretty! The following morning we went to visit Hooker Falls which were ama...