On the road again! It all began one Saturday morning, very very early...we bid our amiable hosts goodbye and set off for the horizon once again! After a rather turbulent but otherwise uneventful flight from Auckland to Christchurch, we trotted off to a worrying looking back corner of the airport where our next plane to Hokitika was due to leave. When Cal saw the size of the aeroplane that worrying was not helped - it was tiny! A 20 seater. After a short prayer se...

We made it to the end!Ah the life of leisure begins again! We feel we've have earnt it a little more this time with lots of toil and sweat at the pub, so shall be enjoying it all the more now! It was fun to go out for a meal and be the customers for a change...sitting at a table that Cal laid herself the day before! Well no real exciting stories yet, but we are about to hit the road again, so we live in hope! The West Coast of the South Island calls.... Som...

Life goes on in New Zealand! Our working life has become a little more absorbing as we both get stuck into working in the Salty Dog Inn. It's just what we needed, lots of hours, good pay and good fun. We even get the same days off! It gets a bit knackering though, with early mornings following late nights...but thoughts of white sands and clear waters in Thailand keep us going! Matt sweats away all day in his corner of the kitchen, impressing everyone by havi...

Hello all! No exciting news to report really, except that it's very nice to stay in one place for a while! Our working holiday visas came through super-quick once all sent off praise the Lord! So now we're all legal. We've done some work in a vineyard called Ransoms with an exceptionally talktative chap called Rob, we've de-flowered little fijoa trees to improve next year's crop (we have yet to find out what a fijoa fruit is like though!) and...

Ah 2007, we like it already... With the Christmas frolics all over, the weather warming up and still no jobs to occupy us, we couldn't resist Dave and Regans's offer to join them camping over New Year. We headed up north a bit to an area known as the Kauri Coast (apparently a kauri is a whopping great tree) and gleefully set about putting up our tent for the first time on the trip! Next to Dave and Regs' canvas mansion it looked a little dwarfed but ...