Hello All! Our apologies for not being in touch for a while. Where to start... well we left Melbourne because the grand prix was looming and due to our a-bit-too-laid-back attitude we hadn't arranged accomodation early enough and subsequently were left homeless! So we headed to Brisbane on a mammoth 22hour journey on the greyhound which wasn't the best. The coach was fairly empty though so we could stretch out a bit. I did attempt to sleep on the floor for part...

Well here we are at last! I know we haven't spoken in a while but we have been busy bunnies so we apologise. We landed in Sydney at abouy 1 O'clock in the afternoon on the 20th of February, and it was into blazing hot sunshine. great stuff!! After going through the very slow process of immigration and quarantine we searched for somewhere to ask how to get to the hostel we were stopping at, so we asked at the information point. Now let it be said, i know that we a...

So... we set up camp in Queenstown in the most central campsite we have found so far to where everything's going on! Queenstown is a great little town where everything is in easy walking distance. The only downside was that it wasn't cheap! As a result, we took our tent down, checked out, checked back in and put the tent back up again 3 times while we were there, because we kept thinking we would find somthing cheaper a bit further outside the centre but no such ...

Well here we are again, its that time of the week you are all living for, thats right our wonderful blog! Since the last time we spoke we have done a lot of driving, well i say we, ive been instructing the driver on the navigation side of our enterprise. (More of a background man me). After we spoke to you last we headed up on to our campsite, which was much to be desired. Basically someones back garden with tents pitched in it, was funny though, the woman kept s...

Technicalities first... the pic is of Wellington not Christchurch because we have only just arrived here in Christchurch. Sorry :-) Right... so....What have we been up to? Well we drove from Lake Taupo to Wellington in a day, didn't quite mean to but we were going well and the next thing we knew we were in Wellington. It took about 7 hours and the contrast in the landscape from one place to the other was immense!! One minute we were surrounded by volcanoes, the ...