Time for a bit more tramping in the Mount Cook area. Another sunny day and amazing views of New Zealand's highest peak. Anton has decided that he should be a leg model what with his calves getting more shapely with every trek. I have decided that I really need to ditch the beige walking trousers that can adapt to be cropped as it's really not a good look. A bit more freedom camping later by Lake Dunstan before a spot of mountain biking along the Old Gold Rail...

After a few days on our own it was back to meeting up with friends and family again. This time - Bec and Stu's house in Christchurch. Thanks guys for such a lovely catch up. We really savoured the last shower and proper bed in a while as we soon traded all that luxury in for a camper. Now most people probably shop around for a while, get the best deal and don't end up with an embarrassing heap of junk. Well for some reason we are incapable of organising anyt...

So we arrived in New Zealand and got straight onto the adrenaline stuff in the bungee crazed town of Queenstown. And before you get excited, no we didn't boing at the end of an elastic band. Instead we opted for a jet boat ride getting soaked whilst doing 360s in ridiculously narrow canyons. Awesome. Getting used to signing those disclaimer thingeys. We then got stuck into one of New Zealand's passions - tramping. And no not your Bearded Lady of Guildford s...

To finish up our Aussie experience, we backtracked it to WA to stay with Doris and India in the seaside city of Fremantle or Freo to her now she's a local. Lovely old place, lots of character and a lovely local brew called Little Creatures. Tasty. Dor's got herself sorted with a 'character home' and we spent hours on her front porch area talking crap and breathing in incense sticks while she watered her plants. Very Freo. I put in the Godmother hours with da...

So it was on to the home of Neighbours, my old Clapham flatmate Lisa and my Mum's stomping ground before she moved back to the UK in the 1960s... Had such a lovely time with Lisa and Tim - why oh why did you have to move back to the other side of the world guys?! The girls had excited verbal diahorrea all weekend (those who have met the lovely Lise will know she can talk for Australia) whilst the boys discussed the necessary accumulation of boys toys when livin...