A belated Happy New Year from New Zealand! Hope you all had a great festive season and are surviving the 'Big Freeze' OK. The UK actually made the front page of the newspapers in New Zealand the other day because of your weather! Needless to say it isn't quite as cold here - we've had very mixed weather (you can get 4 seasons in one day here) but it definitely isn't freezing! Our trip around North Island in the run up to Christmas was great. We've been right...

So this is it - the end of our Australian adventure. We move onto New Zealand tomorrow in time for Christmas. We've had an amazing month - as you can see from all the pictures we have just up-loaded - we've seen so much and covered a lot ground. Unfortunately the system crashed just as we were trying to label all the pictures so we'll have to go back in and do that so you know what you're looking at! But it's 9.45pm here and we haven't had any dinner yet so i...

So we finally got round to updating all the pictures on the blog!!! That's all of Asia up to date now - only Australia to go. We're in Melbourne at the moment - gave the van up a few days ago in Brisbane - just as it gave up the ghost on us! Conked out on us on our way into Brisbane - took 3 trucks and 5 hours to rescue us!! But that's another story - this is just a very quick up date, we're on our way out to Alice Springs first thing in the morning so have to...

Greetings from Oz! I know, I know - you thought we'd disappeared off the face of the earth?!?! Sorry, we've been a bit slack with our up dates recently - no excuse really - we've been too busy enjoying ourselves!!! Anyway - we've been through 4 countries since our last post so here are the highlights: Cambodia - after Sihanoukville we moved on to the capital Phnom Penh, and then Siem Reap to visit the temples at Angkor. Two equally important but completely d...