Hi everyone! This will be our last entry in New Zealand, we're leaving tomorrow evening for Fiji. Since the last time we wrote, we've finished our touring. After Taupo we headed up to Rotorua (the van has made it all the way by the way - and we got compensation!) where it is very smelly. We saw lots of hot thermal pools and boiling mud, stopping to take a dip in a few. Couldn't take the smell for long (smelt like warm rotten eggs) so we headed across to Waitomo ...

Hello again, Hope all is well at home. We've been trying to load photos for you people to see but there's a problem with the computer so no can do :-( We've made it to the north island! In Kaikoura we had a whale of a time watching sperm whales from a tiny plane. The take off and landing were fine - it was the banking in the air that was stomach-churning! We loved it though. Headed up to Nelson, enjoyed ourselves driving around then headed back to Picton via th...

Hi everyone! Thanks for the comments and messages - sorry to hear Burnley are doing so badly, but I doubt many other people care about that. Yes I agree Roy needs his hair cutting, but I think he's quite attached to the 'wind-through-my-glorious-locks' look. And Jill, hope you're having a lovely time in Grenada - we're still allowed to be jealous! Since leaving Dunedin we stopped along the east coast to see the Moeraki boulders - massive limestone rocks that ar...

Hello to all the lovely people, rich and poor, short and tall. Since leaving Queenstown, we have travelled right the way down the west coast, took a left through Invercargill and carried on up the coast, to a little place just outside Dunedin all in the space of a little over a week. Our last day in Queenstown we went up the cable car, did some lugeing down the slopes. Played a bit of frisbee golf in the park, a great way to walk around, and tried not to get bl...

Happy 2009 to all of you warm and cold. We are in Queenstown at the moment,have been here for a day and plan to spend a couple more before moving on to M Our New years was a quietish affair in Greymouth (which was how I felt in the morning ironically), in our cosy hostel. Met some cool kiwis from Wellington who have invited us to stay. Don't worry sis they didnt seem like serial killers. WE did loads of travelling up and down the west coast in the last week. F...