Hello everybody, It's finally time to fill you all in on our adventures in Rotorua, the land of bubbling mud & geysers, with an added hint of sulphur! It was lovely to finally arrive in Rotorua, unpack and stay in one place for a few nights - as lovely as our Coromandel road trip was, it did get quite tiring packing up and moving on everyday (I'm sure that will fill you all with sympathy...) Anyway, in some respects we should consider ourselves very lucky - ...

Hello, OK, another quick update this evening - we're still travelling around and still fighting the meter on expensive hostel computers, so as before I've uploaded a handful of photos from the second half of our Coromandel tour and Hobbiton, and will write a little now then expand on it later when we have better access. (Updated 21 & 22 June) Coromandel Part II: Our voyage around Coromandel has finally drawn to a conclusion and I think it's fair to say th...

Hello! Apologies for not updating for a while, but we are touring around Coromandel, a night in each place and have found that Internet access here is both expensive and slow! Anyway, I've uploaded a selection of photos from the first part of this mini tour and will write a brief blog and once we are settled somewhere again I'll probably add a little more of each. (Updated 21 & 22 June) Coromandel - what an amazing place! And what a fantastic time to visit ...

Hello! Just a really quick blog today, but we have good news: we've bought a car! We got a stunningly good deal on an ex-rental Toyota Corolla, whom we have christened Shadowfax (for non-Rings fans, after the name of Gandalf's trusty white steed) as she is going to sweep us across Middle Earth! (For all Rings fans, yes, we know Shadowfax was strictly a boy, but we're using a little artistic licence here - she feels like a girl, ok?) So, we're going to sweep off...

Life in a Packhouse Woo Hoo!!! Our 2-week stint in a kiwi packhouse is over, we've slept a lot, & now it's time to fill you in on life in the packhouse before we move onto our next adventure. But before I do, I should just elaborate a little on the picking beforehand, because while the picking itself was hard work and the people running it a pain in the behind, we did meet some interesting people working there. Unlike the apple picking gangs who were dominat...