Hello, Apologies to those who already know, but apparently we should have let you all know on here that we're HOME! We cut the trip a little short and headed home at the end of Feb, after an amazing 6 months on the road. Big thanks to everyone who sent us messages along the way, and special thanks to those people who let us abuse their hospitality - to Angela and Aaron in Perth, Robert et clan in Manly, Jess in Melbourne, Leonie and the flatmates in Christchurch...

Hey people! Very quick message to say we're in California! Had a great time in LA, did all the tourist things and even got to see some celebs - Brad and Angelina, Anne Hathaway, Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins to name a few. Loved Vegas, didn't lose very much money either! Now we're in San Fran, having a great time but it's so cold! Congrats to Mark and Louise and welcome to baby Samuel! Hope all is well, gotta run now, See you all very soon... Love Jo and...

Bula! We had such a great time in Fiji. Flight was fine, though they made us watch Beverley Hills Chihuahua which was painfully bad. But we touched down in Nadi and made it to our hostel. Very nice, swimming pool, big screen tv showing 6 Nations and air con! Ventured into Nadi town, wished we hadn't. Not a pretty place, and it felt very poor. We got dragged into a shop to have a kava ceremony before having to buy souvenirs just to leave. Were happy to get back t...

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...