After 14 months exploring the wonderful country of New Zealand, sampling the Kiwi way of life, hospitality (& wine) and meeting the weird & wonderful wildlife, and a further 2 months immersed in the stimulating, colourful, exhilarating and at times exhausting countries of SE Asia, our journey ends in North Wales, on a relaxing week's holiday with Mum & Dad, designed to allow us time to catch up on the last 16 months and recover from, er, our 16 month ...

Hello everybody! We're home again! In fact we've now been back for over a week but we're both still next to useless (well I am - Su's heading in the right direction since reclaiming control of the kitchen!) In theory we shouldn't have felt any worse than we did after the flight from Auckland to Bangkok, same length of flight, same time difference, but in reality we seemed to just stop and were unable to kick-start ourselves again. I guess it's because when we arr...

For many years I have been obsessed by travel: an avid reader of Wanderlust magazine, travel books and literature, with a healthy interest in World Music and Cinema. I love learning about different people, places and cultures, exploring how differently we all live our lives. But while I've travelled quite a bit around Europe, world travel has always been a bit of a distant dream, something that hasn't seemed possible to me while I've been in the land of student d...