Hi All, Spending a week at Abel Tasman National Park at the mo. and to say it is beautiful is a massive understatement !! Completed a 11km walk through the park yesterday after getting dropped off in a water taxi (check the photo's to see Shell havuing a paddle!!) Both very proud of our selves for completing the walk even if it did take 3 and 1/2 hours !! Been out & about today and reached 'Farewell Spit' which is the most northerly point of the So...

Hi All Went to see a great new film in Christchurch - its called 'Super Size Me' and it'll put ypu off burgers for life!!! Basically this guy decides that he's just going to eat McDonalds for 30 days straight - breakfast, lunch and tea and the results are freightening !! - if you've read Fast Food Nation this is definetley one for you.. The guy who directed and stared in the film (Morgan Spurlock) actually turned up at the end of teh screening for a Q&A...

Hi All, just been chilling in Hanmer Springs - definetley on Shelley's Top 3 list the Springs Centre is amazing - there's about 8 different pools all kept at different tempertures - the one Shell was in was 42 degrees !! Rob spent most of his time on the water slides - no suprise there then ... having a great time and the car is still alive (just !!) - hope all is well back home bye for now Rob and Shelley xxxx

Hi All from Christchurch NZ... since we last spoke we've travelled from Quennstown to Dunedin which is a very pretty Scottish style city then up the coast to Timaru and on to CHristchurch......its pretty amazing we've made it anywhere given the state of our hire car - to say its ancient is a massive understatement - its got 120,000km on the clock and Shell reckons its already gone round the clock a couple of times .......she's really missing her little Yaris...

Hi All in Queenstown at the moment having a great time !! we've finished the 15 day Connections tour and we're having a couple of days chilling before we start our own big adventure touring around the rest of this amazing country... Queenstown is a beautiful place set right in the middle of the mountains, it looks like something straight from the Lord Of The Rings films - absoluutely breath taking... We're going for a walk around the lake today and...