Sunday 18th February Had to be up at 4.30 a.m. to be at the airport for 6.00, our flight was leaving for Christchurch at 8.10a.m. and left right on time, we put our watches forward 3 hours this time as New Zealand are currently GMT + 13. We had fantastic views of the Southern Alps and the Canterbury Plains as we flew over New Zealand and arrived to brilliant blue skies and sunshine. After checking in at the hotel we walked to Cathedral Square (the centre of th...

Arrived into Christchurch yesterday, sun is shining and we done our balloon flight at last this morning. More to follow later

Wednesday 31st January Off to the airport again at 10.30, only 30 minute ride in a taxi - destination Sydney. Arrived at 13.25 after a one hour flight, took the city shuttle bus cost A$12 each and luckily we were the first to be dropped off (we usually find we are the last), checked in by 14.30. The grey clouds and overcast skies seem to be following us across Australia as Sydney was bathed in cloud - not the usual sunshine, never mind if we thought of England w...

Just a quick update to let you know that we that done the Bridge climb today, it was GREAT, fantastic views for miles. A quick apology for Rugby fans, we have just discovered that we were given duff information from Melbourne as the Rugby World Cup was held in Sydney Telstra Stadium and not Melbourne Telstra dome (have to get our facts right!!). Bye for now, proper update next week from Fraser Island.

Saturday 20th January Time to move on to Adelaide, our flight was at 11.40 and we were due to land at 14.30, once again we put our watches forward by 1 hr, we are now 10.5 hours ahead of the UK. The weather forecast for Adelaide was rain but nothing could have prepared us for the rain when we landed, it was absolutely pouring, the rain that we had experienced in Alice springs seemed to be following us! The airport was only just outside the city so we were chec...