Road trip NZ Our road trip around New Zealand has been fantastic. Far too busy to blog, sorry! I'm only doing this entry for New Zealand, because although we've had a great time there probably isn't too much to report; I don't want it to end up being a load of place names that you've never heard of (we hadn't heard of most of them before). Plus there aren't the cultural / language differences (on the whole) that there have been in other countries. So, we'll giv...

This entry is dedicated to Ron and Joy We have spent the past few days with Ron and Joy. They have kindly been showing us Christchurch and around. The icing on the cake has been Ron's amazing drinks cabinet; as well as the usual brandy, Bacardi, gin, whisky and vodka was an impressive array of liqueurs (approximately 35); there was even a bottle of After Shock!! (Although, I hasten to add, our days of After Shock are truly behind us.) On Friday we drove alon...

On to NZ We arrived at Brisbane airport to check-in for the 3 hour flight to Christchurch. However, a slight hiccup meant we couldn't check-in as we only had one-way flights into the country and we needed to have flights out. A bit narked, as we had wanted to keep our plans fairly loose we plucked a date out of the air and decided to buy flights to Sydney. It'll actually be nice as we'll meet up with Sara, my cousin and her husband while we are there. Anyway, ...