Hi All from sunny...rainy...sunny....rainy...rainy...rainy...new zealand! We arrived into Christchurch on the 14th Feb and have spent a very full week travelling around the South Island, with our mouths open exclaiming WOW at every turn. So far, new zealand has proved to be stunningly beautiful with huge mountains, bright blue volcanic lakes, huge panoramic views and endless rolling fields. At times it is reminds us of the Lake District on a much larger scale and...

Dear All, So here we are again in Melbourne, though a very different stay it has been for us what with the addition of a new family member in the Belsey household here. Little Ben is gorgeous and thus far not too much of a handful for Mum and Dad. He's a strong little thing though and will no doubt be causing mayhem around here in the not too distant future. The other big story as I'm sure you'll all be aware is the Victorian Bush Fire disaster. After the hott...

Hi all, Well, frankly you are quite lucky to hear from us this week, after a week of cheating death from heat stress, dehydration, poisonous (redback) or just plain scary (huntsman) spiders, snakes, sleep deprivation or just sheer exhaustion. Yes, like true Brits we decided to venture into the Northern Territory in the height of summer and even paid for the privilege... Cairns - Sunday 25th January Following our blogging marathon last sunday we took a hard...

Hello world! Well you can call off the search party as we are still alive, having spent the last 3 weeks travelling up the east coast of Australia from Sydney up to Cape Tribulation. We have intended to update the blog many times only to decide it was too expensive, too slow, too short a time window or just too hot to think but here we are in beautiful Port Douglas with an hour credit and air conditioning... We've had a fun 3 weeks, with a number of novel exper...

Happy New Year from Sydney! Just a quick email from Sydney. We have had a great week here and had an excellent view of the fireworks from just behind the Opera house (thanks again to James and Renee for the tickets). We will write a more detailed blog soon but highlights this week include the fireworks, our unintentional upgrade to a one bed apartment (when Phil blew all the fuses in the little studio we paid for on Day 1 - nice work Phil), the weather (mid 30'...