Today was a pretty quiet day until our showdown with Scotland in the rugby in the evening! After another lie-in, we drove to a boutique chocolate makers in town called The Seriously Good Chocolate Company, where we paid $6 for only 4 chocolates, but they were good! We weren't in town long before we went back to the site for the rest of the day. We lounged about reading and watching telly until tea-time. Then we headed over to the Cabbage Tree, a restaurant on th...

This mornig we had a lie-in, then we drove to the I-Site with a plan of parking up and having a look around the town. On the way, I saw an advert on our map for Splash Palace - a leisure centre with hot tubs and a steam room. I fancied a swim (it's been a while!) so we changed our plans and drove there instead - the beauty of having your own wheels! We had a good couple of hours swimming and steaming, with a jacuzzi in between - not bad for $14 for 2 of us! Afte...

Today we got up and got in touch with Chris via skype to wish him a happy birthday (a surprise arranged by Kerry), even though it's not quite his birthday in England yet! It was good to talk to him and Kerry and find out how his travel plans are coming along. We should all be meeting up in Bangkok at the end of February - looking forward to it! We also skyped home and talked to Mam, Dad and Kelly. Kelly's going to start looking for flights to Australia to meet u...

Today was VERY rainy :( We woke up to the sound of the rain on our roof, managed to pack up and eat breakfast during a quick 'sunshine break' and hit the road! We decided not to hang around for my blood test results as we didn't think they'd show anything different, and we wanted to move on to Invercargill. We drove all morning in the rain with a few stops - one to see 'Niagra Falls' at the side of the road, but in Dave's words it 'wasn't even worth a photo!' an...