April 6th 2010 Valparpaiso, Chile 7:30pm (the picture is from Santiago, not from here!) So we made a plan finally...the new plan is to head North into Peru, which means travelling through Chile. We got our bags and caught the metro to Santiagos bus station, got a ticket and boarded a bus to here. We were both excited to move somewhere smaller and hoped it would be easier. Oh how wrong we were! Pulling into Valpa we noticed all of the houses on the hills and ...

OK, so i know i have missed the south island blog....but i will get there, thought id do the freshest first!!! April 2nd 2010 Ok, so we arrived! we left with a HUGE hangover from our last night in queenstown, NZ and flew to Auckland to connect to here. Neil was feeling very rough and I was not much better! The 1st flight we slept the whole thing through although my ears were very painful fr landing. We had to wait nearly 4 hours at Auckland for th next fligh...

27th February 2010 Arrived in Auckland 1 hour before mom and dad as we were on different flights. We waited in the airport for them and then we all waited for Micky Dunnion to collect us. He took us to his home in Dairy Flats, north of Auckland admiring the beautiful views on the way. The dunnion family were lovely and out us up in thier caravans for 2 nights. We were spoilt with breakfast and dinner and entertained by the 4 children. They live on avery high ...

26th February 2010 (i got the dates wrong on the last blog, serves me right for backtracking so much. We flew to NZ on the 24th February!) Our adventure begins......... we drove to Paihia and stayed for 2 nights in a motel (which in NZ is a self contained apartment) The first night, dad took us to a 5* hotel for dinner where we had an amazing meal and even Neil managed to eat some of it too :) On the second night the boys went to play pool while me and mom we...

Form the worst 3 1/2 weeks where Neil thought he would have to send me home to a breath of freash air. Cowes couldnt have been more than we what we wanted. A small seaside town, everything in walking distance and gorgeous weather! We were greeted by Kate at amaroo park and showed to our dorm room. We were sharing with Irena and Christian, a couple form Germany. Kate told us to enjoy our day and meet in the kitchen at 6pm for dinner. At this point we still thou...