Happy Birthday Dad and Happy mothers day to you mum! The newly weds are doing fine... Huong has made a couple of Vietnamese friends in West Wickham...I did not realise that there is actually a Vietnamese community in Shirley!!! She has also made friends with an English girl called Kay. I Love your pictures and it looks like your are having a great time! All the best Love Lee and Huong!

off today for 100k trip tp new forest arrived hot and sweaty after strenuous drive down m27 wind sun and rain sounds like n/ zealand without the flight. Booked into rough old site with heated facilities. Sorted meal in a gourmet pub up the road, will have to drive all the way there. Preparing ourselves for 3k walk tomorrow around the shops of Lymington.

Look forward to seeing you in April when we can organise a proper holiday, Until then enjoy!!!!!!!!

D & L

Day 1068 Happisburgh - Norfolk

Another frosty start to the day accompanied by last night's left-overs. Left about 9.30 and drove through to Wymondham where the chemists were putting drugs out on a table + tablecloth with a cup of cough mixture to wash it down. Den invested in a shampoo and set and a chest-hair-trim she was beginning to look like Keith. We then motored onto Ellough to the Farmer's Market... great place with home-made wine and freshly grown bread...

Happy Birthday Dad, love Spencer and Lynda xxx

Too busy to take the piss, maybe next time you F*&$ing MUG!!!

Am confused over the picture of the seal! Is it the one with the yellow coat on and a beard? Or the one with just the beard? As for the seal following you Maureen if it's got it's tongue hanging out then that's Keith! Poor fella he is trying to keep up!! Just out of interest how much were the pedals for Keith's bike?

Before you say it! Yes Deb has taught me how to use the computer!

No stopping me now!!

Hi you two! where are you? we have been in Christchurch for a few days and will be heading north up the coast. wish we could meet up for a good visit! hope all is well with you. be careful and take care.

friends from Texas

scott and jenny

Hi you Two

We are considering putting you back on the current friends list, as we have a gap of places to stay in Switzerland!

At present we are in Surat Bay and its Tuesday 2 March we are here for another day and then we are off to Dunedin on Friday so if you want to have some old friends around it will probably be there I would think.

Best regards from your very old ex frends

Hey Ex-friends from England The nice Swiss-Team is back from Milford Sount...we finally survived!! After this four really long days we have a day off in TeAnau, also because of the rain!

Where are you now! Maybe we could meet again, if you are not too far away!!

See you Sabine and David

Hello Dave and Pauline,

Yes we are fine and staying well at present, a little tried today just completed 85k and yesterday around 100k but
the wind or should I say gales are brewing-up and that really does take it out of you. We have now covered
approximately 1,400k since we arrived but we do have some days rest so the mileage would be higher if we cycled each
day. We are nearly 2/3rds around the South Island but we intend to go inland on some rail-track roads, hopefully
they will not be too bad for our bikes to cope with. They have been holding up well, no maintenance and no punctures
but we have special tyres and I know a bloke who knows what he is doing . . . all the better. Accommodation has been
mixed, but it's fine, I didn't want to bring camping gear for so many reasons, weight, sleeping in the tent in the
wet when you have ridden for miles (I must be getting old). The accommodation varies from Motels to Backpackers
Hostels but you meet a lot of different people, young and old alike and some are undertaking incredible things (will
tell everyone on the blog). Food is fine, sometimes we eat out if it's cheap enough and other times we buy food and
cook it in the kitchens provided at the backpacker hostels. Cannot complain about the weather we have had good and
bad but N.Z is a most exciting place to visit. Best of luck with the Wedding plans, they always seem to do this when
you don't expect it!!!!!!!

Love to all the family and pleased to see that you are reading the blog.

mmmm, nice to see you mentioned your kids, "Thanks to all our friends and others for the comments/digs etc." .... so we are the "others" nice one!!

Saw your video, I wept, slowly but surely wept, with joy and an ache in my heart from your absence! You keep enjoying yourself and mum keep on interupting!!

Thanks to all our friends and others for the comments/digs etc.

Especially glad to get a message from Dean (did Debs show you how to use the computer)?

Also good to hear from the present incarnation (not evaporated milk) of the former contributor that was "the man with no life". Had to tell you Ron that we were outside a lakeside bar enjoying a drop of NZs finest amber stuff in the sunshine when on the sound system came John Lee Hooker and "let the good times roll" and I have to say I thought of you immediately . . . so someone does love you after all!

Brian and Julia it has been everything you said it would be and we most definitely have a visit/meal on the schedule just as soon as we fly back in the CHC. We will contact you as soon as we know when. Have you had any referrals we are spreading the "Cyclist Retreat" gospel to anyone who will listen, we have told all and sundry to use before they lose it.

Just thought I would let you know all is ok at work and we are keeping things ticking over! Not really missing you to be honest as I find it very hard to talk to you!! It's quite handy that John is here as we seem to have far better conversations than me and you do! Adam has taken control of the studio department and sorted out all the problems you seemed to have operating the mac's! We are flowing like a well oiled machine now! Try not to miss us all here too much and enjoy your well earned short break! Oh and by the way we have had a reshuffle up in the office and we have now relocated your chair and desk to the car park!! Have fun and speak soon..maybe! Your friend Dean. Love to you too Maureen I have always preferred you to Keith!