Great photos - have printed selection off plus blog for Granny - she still can't get over being able to contact the other side of the world! Am sending longer email to your downunder address. Getting colder (and wet) here - a warm sandy beach for Xmas suddenly seems much more attractive....

Mum & Dad M xxxx
PS Why "Angela"???

Great to speak to you this morning, David. Love the blogs & photos. Enjoy the smell in Rotorua!!! Hope the job in Hawkes Bay works out OK. Dad will thank Rupert for his contact. Lynns funeral was emotional, so many people. No trains from Tring back to Euston, fatality on the line, so we had to take Kate right back to Woking, so she could get back to Southampton!!! Went nearly all the way round the M25. Keep posting your blogs. love reading them.

Mum H xxxxxx

Glad to see you're having fun - cool photos :-) I guess the Kiwi is going to become a feature of your NZ photos!

Sadly, we lost to the All Blacks - I guess you're hearing a lot about that down there...

Hope your car is doing better than ours - we've had to take it in again today - something else has gone wrong, costing a lot more money to fix :-( What car have you got?

Keep updating us - I'll update you more on what's happening here soon...

David x

Hi Guys!

Great to hear you have made it 'down under' via Hong Kong. Did you get to eat anything unusual in HK? I hear they like eating odd things!

I saw a programme about HK recently and the presenters went to a dog restaurant, and I thought the worst!! Thankfully rather than serving dog, the restaurant allowed owners to bring their dogs in with them and fed both owners and dogs! Phew!!

Keep up the blogs and happy travelling to you both.

Sue

Glad you are having a good time. Rugby was a good day although we lost but we will probably beat the All Blacks today and make you very unpopular in NZ! Mum & Dad

Sorry - that should have read Hobbit (new contact lenses fab for distance but hopeless for reading/keyboard) - "bobbit" has crisis connotations of a different kind....

Have you guys found a car yet? Are you still staying in the same place, or have you moved on somewhere else?

And, Dave, make sure you get a photo of Rach to put up on here - I know she's camera-shy, but I'm sure you'll manage to catch her unguarded!

Wilson's parking attendant seems to have an identity crisis (bobbit / gorilla / Big Bird or Santa???)!! xx

Hi guys!!

Can't quite believe you were heading out to the pub when I still coping with the morning over here. I hope you find a car that's not a complete banger for your travels.

Cxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

helloooooooo :-)

hope you are having fun...I had exactly the same feeling when I got off the plane in HK.

Off to Argentina tonight and soooo looking forward to it.

Goo luck with the car

xxxx