"When God created the world he had a handful of everything left - mountains, deserts, lakes, glaciers - and he put it all in his pocket you see, and as God walked across heaven it all trickled out, and the long trail it made was Chile" We arrived in Santiago on Monday. After an 11 hour flight we arrived in Santiago 5 hours before we left Auckland because we crossed the date line. The Jet Lag hit us hard and out of our first 24 hours in the city from 2p...

Today we have said our goodbyes to our camper. After 31 days and 5412km we sadly had to part our ways. We are now in Auckland sleeping in a proper bed and we actually have space to move around. But we do feel a bit lost without the wheels. We fly to Chile on Monday so are getting ready for our South American adventure! In preparation we are both getting new hair cuts. Our tourist rush ran out a little in Auckland and we failed to venture much further than Qu...

Determined to see the whole of New Zealand Aidan and I drove up to Northland in search of beautiful beaches and gorgeous weather. It was almost winter and the locals complained all the time about it being cold, we thought it was warm, which made a nice change. Visited the Bay of Islands. This is where we had a short history lesson at the site of The Treaty of Waitangi. Camped by the river with lots fo ducks. I fed them some bread and they stayed all night. Next...

We are now in Rotoroua. The boys went Zorbing today, a crazy concept where you get inside a huge ball and roll down the hill. They also chuck a bucket of water in with you so you slide all over the place. This wasn't enough for Nicky, he had to take up the challenge of Zorbing in my bikini. (I've learnt never to dare Nicky to do something, he really will). It caused quite a stir at the Zorbing centre and the Chinese tourists thought it was the highlight of their...

Lake Taupo is the largest freshwater lake in Australasia. Unfortunately, when we arrived we could only see a couple of feet out and it looked like the sea. The views would have been amazing. We asked Tourist Info what to do in the rain, they were hopeless so we decided to go to Taupo Hot Springs. This was outdoors but the water was warm so we guessed it would be ok. I did notlook forward to stripping off into bikini in the pouring rain but the hot pools were gr...