Hello!Hope you're all very well. We're soon to be returning back to blighty so I'm a bit sad to say that this update will be one of our last.....but I'm very happy to say that we've just had an amazing few weeks! I think we've covered an excess of 4000 km since we left work at the beginning of the month which is pretty impressive - Pamela Van Diesel has been very busy indeed. After finishing work we had a week to ourselves before Tom's parents arrived, so we deci...

Hi everyone. Several of you have been asking where the updates have been on here for the last few months and the short answer is we haven't really had much to update!The problem with going away for a year is that it costs a lot of money and we had always planned to spend some time on our trip working to help pay for all our shenanigans. As such we have been holed up in a place called Blenheim for the last 3 months. Blenheim is in the heart of the Marlborough Regi...

Hello! It has again been a bit of a while since we updated the blog with any news of our trip....I hope everyone is well. We have just arrived in the South island, and Tom has begun work in the vineyards, and I'll be joining him at the same place at the beginning of next month. I won't bore you with the details of our epic struggle to find work, but lets just say it has not been as easy as we imagined it would. It's down to a couple of things, one being a lack o...

Hello! It has again been a bit of a while since we updated the blog with any news of our trip....I hope everyone is well. We have just arrived in the South island, and Tom has begun work in the vineyards, and I'll be joining him at the same place at the beginning of next month. I won't bore you with the details of our epic struggle to find work, but lets just say it has not been as easy as we imagined it would. It's down to a couple of things, one being a lack o...

Hello again after another rather large gap in communication. Turns out New Zealand is less technologically advanced than even Cambodia so getting online is a bit of a chore. Anyhoo, I digress. We arrived in Australia jetlagged and rather confused finding ourselves in a western environment after our Asian adventures. The streets were clean and everything cost an arm and a leg. Gone were the days of eating out every night. We were in Sydney which was a very nice ci...