13th - 24th July - South Island - New Zealand After a smooth sailing across the Tasman sea we caught our connecting coach to Christchurch where we were greeted by our host s for the weekend Lee & Kiri. It was early evening before we got to Christchurch but the drive from Picton was certainly a sign of the things to come!! Blue skies, sea on your left side snow capped mountains to your right and green green green grass every where else. We were very ex...

3rd - 13th July North Island - New Zealand The next leg of our adventure begins when we touch down in Auckland airport 2 ½ later than scheduled which nearly proved a problem as Mike & Karen (Mike old BT chum) were picking us up!! Needless to say they had the for-sight to check the flight details on t'internet the night before!! A mild panic set in as we had no way of contacting them just as they walked into the main entrance of the airport. W...