We arrived in Milan at 6am, and spent our first 40 min in a customs queue, when we finally got our turn it was a simple stamp in our passports and that was that. While organising our bags Stumpy fell off the seat and broke his toe - better the mascot than one of us, but now his name seems a bit more appropriate! We are having trouble posting photos at the moment hopefully we will get this sorted soon so you can see him. We jumped on a train to the city (noting t...

Our departure from Masterton, gave us a chance to try out our wet weather gear with Wellington turning on the weather in a way that only Wellington can! A brief overnight stay and then an early morning flight to Auckland was the kids first time on a plane. Scott wasn't impressed and was very bored on the short 1 hour flight - not a good sign with 22 hours of flights ahead of us. At Auckland airport we managed to find "Stumpy" our kiwi mascot for the trip (named b...