Sydney Musings To cut a long story short, we were supposed to spend a week in Sydney and a few days camping/trekking around Ayers Rock and Alice Springs. But Qantas had other ideas, grounding our flight to Alice Springs and striking for three days. The good news was, that gave us almost two weeks in Sydney, which we have really enjoyed. (And some of it will be paid for by Qantas - silver linings and all that!) So with plenty of time to explore Sydney, we've bee...

Our Island Paradise Words really cannot describe how amazing Aitutaki, the surrounding islands and the lagoon are. (Really, it is stunning. You have to look at our photos and put it in to Google Images to see just how gorgeous it is! www.flickr.com/photos/jocelyns_snaps We loved relaxing on our island paradise and have many happy memories to bring home with us. Here are some of them... The locals meeting us at the airport (a very small hut) with flower garland...

A sea taxi and a tramp...and other adventures on the South IslandBack on the South Island for our last ten days in NZ, we headed straight to Abel Tasman National Park. Famous for secluded coves and spectacular sea views, most parts of the park can only be reached from the sea or onfoot. We booked a sea taxi to take us to Torrent Bay, for a tramp along thecliffs to Bark Bay. The taxi turned out to be a small speed boat, which whisked us along for a very bumpy bum-...

As we headed north towards Picton to get the ferry to Wellington for the quarter final, we decided to stop in Kaikoura, famous for 2 reasons; whale watching and crayfish eating. We had stopped here before on the way past about a week earlier and were thwarted from doing the whale watching as it had all been booked up for the day we arrived. On that occasion we tucked into some crayfish gleefully. For those of you that don't know, crayfish is basically lobster's u...

Dunedin - by Neil My overriding memory of Dunedin is that we had a lot of fun here. The atmosphere all weekend was beyond electric. It was up there with the best games that I have ever been too. (And for those of you that know me, I have been to a lot of matches over the years in some of the best stadium in the world, so this is really saying something!). With the taste of reaching the quarter finals on the Irish fans lips, along with the realisation for many th...