Hello I've uploaded some photos in the folder Aotearoa Antics. Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand, meaning roughly "Land of the Long White Cloud" We are currently in Christchurch and about to start our tour of the south Island. Latest silly activity - jet boating on Lake Rotorua! More later....

Kia Ora from New Zealand! We are having an absolute blast! We arrived in new Zealand last Thursday after being a little sad to leave Melbourne and arrived in Auckland to stay in a very central hotel near the harbour. We had a few days free before our tour so spent that having a look around and sampling the nightlife. Phil said that it was like Manchester without the charm, but we managed to have (lots of) fun none-the-less and did plenty of mingling with...

Hiya all Final postcard from New Zealand. From Queenstown we went to Christchurch, NZ's most English city. They have lots of parks and you can go punting on the river Avon. I was quite excited about reaching a new city, but unfortunately the weather was a bit crap. It was freezing cold and blowing a gale. Did the tourist stuff like go in Christchurch Cathedral which had some mosaics of swastikas on the wall, climbed the spire for a view of the c...

Hi all, Thanks for all your messages! Keep them coming... Oh my god. Today I jumped off a cliff. (Pics to prove it! Though they're scanned and not the best quality.) Yesterday I went to one of the most beautiful spots in the world - Milford Sound (see pic here --->). Day before that I went skiing (again, pic to prove it.) I've added a couple of other pictures as well to the previous albums. I am now as far south as I will go in a place...

Hi there Thanks for all your replies to me and comments about the site. I've added a couple of pics (only two this time) but hopefully they will put as much of a smile on your faces as the last lot did. I've done quite a bit since the last postcard. Been to Waitomo where I had to dress up in a wet suit and float through some caves on a rubber ring to see 'Glow Worms' - a very surreal experience. In fact I've had a few of those while in NZ... Aft...