We have had some sad news from home and we have to leave New Zealand tomorrow. Jonny's dad has taken very ill and is in hospital. We are flying back to be with him and his family. Please can everyone keep fingers crossed for him. Thank you letitia and jonny xxxx

Hi again, Well we are not having much luck with the weather today so we have had to take another day off as what lies ahead off us is a big long steep hill down which we think could be quite dangerous cycling down in the horizontial rain. However since i last updated the site we have had a few cycle days and they have been very testing ones too! So after having 3days off in Geraldine we finally woke up on the 8/4 to a beautiful morning so we got packed up and...

hello again. sorry i did not get to finish the update last time i was on...... i ran out of time so i had to quickly log off. So i will continue the journal starting from..... 26/3 - We got up nice and early and ended up not having to pay for the campsite as the owner did not come home from the pub the night before. We set off and there was a horrid chill in the air so we put plenty of layers on. We had some gruelsome hills to get over and it was not just get to...

Helllloooooooo!! Sorry it has been so long again! and i have not put pictures on for ages. Every computer we see has no access to the USB port which is a pain!! Anyway, The last time i wrote was back on the 12/3 this was the day we booked the trip for the kayaking on Milford Sound. The company was not sure if the day would fall through as bad weather was on its way but we still decided to book and take the chance. It was a small family company so we enjoyed giv...

hellllllooooo. Well we made it up the Big hill called Haast pass but we did have to get off the bike and walk as some parts were just sooo steep and we do not have low enough gears for it!!! But we stuck at it. We seen some touring holiday cyclist that had a pick up car which they all got in to get dropped off at the top of the hill - Cheaters!!! They had no panniers but they still got a lift to the top!!! Well when we got the top of the hill we seen a tandem t...