Well hello folks, I'm afraid i'm getting a tad lax at the whole blog malarky. Well....North Island was all groovy. Arrived on the South Island on the 10th of May.... First stop Blenheim for a spot of wine tasting on Bikes - highly amusing day. Especially putting up the tent that night - it was somewhat wonky to say the least! From there we went to the Nelson Lakes National Park and went on two rather lenghty walks before heading to Nelson to stay with some ...

Bonjour from a bloody freezing New Zealand. Going to have to do this at speed otherwise frostbite will set in! Arrived in Auckland and managed to sort out renting a car despite the fact we didn't have credit cards of driving licenses! Headed north to the BAy of Islands - v beautiful place. Didn't some not so strenuous walks as we didn't want to rush into anything....needed an ajustment period. Stayed up there in a place called Waitangi for a couple of days bef...

Bonsoir everyone. Just a v. brief message to say that i am aware that i have been rather slack on the blog of late - will do my best to rectify the situation in New Zealand (off tomorrow morning). Alas - rather dramatic times since i last wrote. We were busy climbing Mount Warning (a 3 hour vertical trekk) and our car was broken into - the thieving berks took pretty much eveything of value, including all the ruddy cameras so no pictures for a while i'm afraid. ...

Happy Easter folks. I tucked into a delicious meal (steak - we decided to splash out since it was a holy day!) on the beach at Elliot Heads (just outside bundaberg) watching the kite surfers. V. exotic! Spent a couple of dasy there doing nothing all that strenuous before we moved on to hervey bay - the gateway to fraser island. Managed to hire a 4x4 for the following two days. Went to pick it up ruddy early in the morning (we had on be on the barge at 8 and had ...

Here are more photobuckets.... Face's is: http://s605.photobucket.com/albums/tt138/NJTomany/ Piles' is: http://s642.photobucket.com/albums/uu148/amyhiley86/ and Balls' is on the way. Happy viewing xxx