Day 100 (how cool is that?!) My first note is that Obama is also on Day 100 - time is going really quickly! I met a second Obama in the last two weeks - a baby born in November just after the original was elected!! Photos to follow:) So Nauru - I have had a fabulous two weeks away with lots of brilliant medicine and really interesting conditions, and some fabulously gory wounds and theatre!!! I won't upload photos but I promise to show anyone who is interested ...

Day 86 Hello from Australia! Apologies for not updating you sooner, but I have been enjoying three "relatively" quiet days in Melbourne, and the luxary of not having to repack every day! I arrived from Christchurch on Sunday (Happy Easter by the way - I hope you all had a fantastic long weekend) and have managed to catch up with lots of friends and enjoy some shopping time! I was suprisingly restrained, and only bought things I actually need... Yeste...

Day 81 Halfway through my trip! I can't believe it - I'll be home before you know it! I hope you are all having a lovely Easter weekend, and eating lots of chocolate! We have had another couple of great days in New Zealand - yesterday we made the most of the snow and blue skies at Lake Tekapo with a walk round part of the lake. Absolutely breathtaking, and the colour really is fantastic. We then headed back to Christchurch and had a quiet day today looking at s...

Day 77 Hello again! I hope you are all looking forward to Easter (and Happy Passover) and to all of you on/going on holiday in the near future, I hope you have an amazing time:) New Zealand is still fabulous; we have spent two days on an overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound, which is the second largest fiord in New Zealand, and is absolutely spectacular. I cannot begin to describe just how beautiful it is, and will upload some photos which will go some way to sho...

Day 75 Another fantastic couple of days in South Island; with some fabulous views and awesome activities! Yesterday we had our longest drive of the holiday; about 5 hours from Franz Josef to Queenstown - it can hardly be described as a hardship when we wanted to stop every 10minutes to take a photo of the amazing scenary! We drove through mountains, past lakes (fortunately not through them!) and through pastureland. Absolutely spectacular, and some very very be...