Happy New Year to you all!!!!We hope you had a wonderful Christmas too!! Reports from several of you advised that it was cold, wet and miserable!! We were thinking of you!! :O)Before we fill you in on our delightfully warm and unusual Christmas, we will give you a quick update on our whereabouts since leaving New Plymouth, so here goes… In the week leading up to our final departure, we both experienced hectic weeks - mine involved training new staff, Trust Man...

Hello everyone!!! It’s the happy wanderers back again! We thought it was about time we provided a pre Christmas update on our whereabouts. Well despite having some strange days in September which involved spending our mornings up on the volcano in a foot of snow, hiking & launching snowballs at fellow hikers followed by the afternoons on the beach paddling (and rockpooling :O), things are now hotting up here, you’ll be pleased to hear, as we rapidly ap...

Welcome back to the Chris and Jue blog, it's been a while but here is the latest update on what we've been up to. First, lets get the boring bit out the way. We're both still working, audit still sucks and Jue's still an organisation guru, but has also added General Trust Manager to her CV. If anyone requires more details of what this new role involves then please feel free to email Jue and request such information as the list is way way way to long for this b...

Hello All!! Hope you are still enjoying the English Summer! We realised that we hadn't updated you all since going on our skiing trip so thought we better just let you all know that we are still alive and kicking after skiing around volcanoes! Well, since we last wrote, we took to the slopes of Mount Ruapehu and indulged in some beginners ski lessons (ridiculously cheap compared to Europe) and had an amazing couple of days skiing and hiking the volcano. Chris o...

Regular readers of this blog may recently have wondered where the intrepid travellers had disappeared to, with rumours starting to circulate that: - they had been taken hostage by Orks and carried back to Middle Earth - whilst investigating local volcanoes they had fallen in one, never to be seen again - they were having to much fun to find the time to write and even; - Jue had been kidnapped by local kiwi rugby players and forced into a life of giving thei...