we arrived in north island after a, thankfully, very calm crossing of the Cook Strait. Wellington is rather large and it took us a while before parking up for the night. the next day we drove back to Wellington central and went to NZ's National Museum- Te Papa, which is really good, we especially enjoyed the Earthquake simulation and the HUGE section on volcano eruptions in the North Island, this put Caroline's already irrational immagination into over drive with...

We arrived in New Zealand amid controversy... we missed/sta travel neglected to let us know that the flight we were supposed to connect with to get to Christchurch was no more!!! luckily we arrived eventually and were met by ian and katie who were good enough to house us for the following few days!! Neal woke up at 3am on the first day here to watch the drama at Goodison Park between Villa and Everton- need to! After a day or two milling about Chch we finally pi...

we arrived in fiji at 6am, though it felt like 4am to us, and were taken to our hostel in newtown, which was really nice. the drive to the hostel reminded us a little of being back in africa which was cool. having slept on the beach for a while, then in our room we went into downtown nadi, which is not very nice and booked our islands trip. woohoo! The following day we returned to downtown nadi and waited two hours for a bus that never came, with all of our lugga...

Brisbane is a cool city, the first place since we have travelled that we reckon we could live. we went for a jog one evening along the river and the skyline is amazing, although a huge bat nearly flew into us while we were admiring it!! However the highlight of brisbane for neal was the XXXX brewery!! we went a long for a tour and bumped into some random journalist who interviewed us and took our pic for the Brisbane Times and then enjoyed an awesome tour and tas...

We flew from perth to Ayers Rock, and got a great view of the (in Neal's opinion) highly over-rated site ("well, i'm glad we got to see it, but i'm more glad we didn't pay loads or drive for 5 days to get here!!" Edmondson, 2008!).... then we arrived in Cairns, in the rain. we explored all that Cairns has to offer in terms of free activities, the botanical gardens and nearbuy rainforest walks and the lagoon (free pool) as well as the markets. then we ...