Woo Hoo! We've cleaned our final toilets! Su has her passport back, with Visa! Robyn & Winston took us for a wonderful farewell meal last night, Su has been baking so we have lots of cookies and date slices for the road and we're off!! Goodbye employment! Hello open road! Lots of love, Jo & Su, xxx

Hello from Wanaka where autumn is fast approaching! It's amazing to experience the changes in the weather here. We arrived in summer, where long lazy days could be spent lounging around the lake (albeit after several hours of cleaning!) though we understand from the locals that it has been a strange summer, rather wet (apparently the pattern here follows that of the northern hemisphere) but wow, the temperatures then dropped fast. Only last week, on our day off, ...

Hello from a rather wet Wanaka, which is currently doing its best to remind us of an English Summer! Typically, it's apparently been a weird summer this year with a lot of wind and cold autumnal nights & mornings that can take a while to warm up. And just as the locals have been insisting that with all this unsettled weather we're due a long hot spell, we've had a 4-day downpour off the back of the storm that has been causing floods over Australia. Please com...

Ladies & Gentlemen, Please raise a glass with us tonight - our visa extensions have been approved! We can now legally stay and work in New Zealand until 4th June, though in reality we will stay here until 30th April, then fly to Bangkok to spend 2 months exploring Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia, before landing back at Heathrow on 30th June. Let's hope that summer is in the UK by then!!! So now we can relax and enjoy a few more weeks in Wanaka, workin...

Hello from Buttercup! Yes, we're still here in Wanaka. Apologies for being rather quiet for the last couple of weeks; it has been a slightly strange period in some ways, mainly as we've been waiting on a couple of decisions, both out of our control, that have quite an impact on our lives over the next few months, so we've been feeling a little in limbo. One of these is the biggie, our visa extension. We submitted it over 3 weeks ago so should know the outcome soo...