Cruising from the top of New Zealand to Christchurch in a motor home There aren't many days in our trip that I am not looking forward to but today was one, our flight from Australia was landing in Auckland at 1 am, we had booked an airport hotel as we couldn't pick up the campervan until 8am. Tired and not really thinking we start dragging the kids across airport carparks on roads with no pavements until we find the hotel we had booked, exhausted we all passed o...

Road-trip from Cairns to Brisbane by Edwina Arriving late into Cairns we head straight for the Big 4 campsite, waking in the morning the kids were in heaven, outdoor pools, giant trampoline pillows, mini golf, outdoor movies, outdoor BBQs areas so that was our day planned. The next day we head out to Cairns Zoo the aim was for the kids to see Kangaroos since we never saw any alive in the wild just road kill and the other main attraction was for the kids to cudd...

Into the red heart of Australia "Gidday" are the first words that the kids here from a welcoming Australia immigration officer. We arrive late evening so not getting much of a feel for Darwin only seeing a few shops that made us all giggle such as "Sexyland". I was on a mission to get to Uluru/Ayers Rock in 2 days and had a detailed plan in my head, like normal Edwina felt everything was planned to military perfection, wake up at 5.30, 6am go to the supermarke...

Back to the Gilis and onto Ubud, Indonesia The speed boat back across to Gili Air had us all excited looking forward to an air conditioned room after 6 days of sweltering heat would be pure luxury and not a bowl of boiled rice insight! The best night sleep was had by all only being woken to the noise of a commercial pump and the putrid smell of a septic tank being emptied……..not to put a damper on our day though! Today's mission was to try and swim with tu...

On the search for Komodos, Indonesia Arriving at the Kencana Booking office we were greeted with utter chaos, it seemed we weren't the only ones rushed into this trip and a few people booking via agents which had promised the earth to get their custom, we had booked direct as we had 6 months earlier read a travel story in a magazine about the Kencana Tour which inspired us to book with the same company. Eventually it all got sorted and we boarded the bus for the...