It was back to the city for some fast van selling. We had 5 days to clean and sell the van and had only got interest from one potential buyer it looked like time was against us. As we were back a Chez Tony's we could park the van outside the house and finally hose the dead haddock smell out from under the wheel arches. We emptied the van of all our stuff onto the pavement and were just pondering how the hell we were going to reduce all of our "stuff" ...

Just a quick stop on our way to Northland to advertise our van. We spent the afternoon driving from hostel to hostel armed with a stack of coloured flyers for their notice boards. We hit all the large popular places in the centre and it was then that I realised how lucky we had been being able to stay in our own van, well away from the youngsters and their raucousness! For the night we stayed with Tony in Herne Bay and went out for a couple of drinks that even...

It was touch and go getting let into New Zealand. At Apia airport we found that even booking online did not manage to bypass the jobsworths. We were told that our lack of onward tickets and proof of exit from NZ meant that we would not be allowed on to the flight. We tried to convince them that we were joining a yacht in Auckland but still no go. After the airline spent half an hour on the phone to immigration it turned out that Katie could enter the country as s...