Today we joined a tour! We had a maori evening and Steve did a Haka. He was a bit miffed that I didn't get up to do the ladies pom pom dance but I didn't want to get up on stage in my short skirt incase people could see my knickers. he thinks that wouldn't normally stop me- true- its the time of the month (not full moon). Only men could sit on the front row of the audience and we all had to leave our shoes outside. I sat just behind Steve and the reason he go...

Sarcasm (Steve):- Today this could be the greatest day of my life? Oh what a perfect day? It started by crawling from a small campervan to find a toilet at 3.30am.(wet grass, from the rain!!, don't take the piss) It finished not too badly. Sat on a king bed in a smart hotel room, we are 300miles from the campervan and wine has been poured. Between these two are rush, travel, no food, hormones and sleep. All never to be mentioned again- once sally has added ...

We travelled

We are campervaners extraordinaire. That is I don't know anyone who has had so many issues and continued "their journey". The fridge has broken down. How much worse could it get? Someone suggested it might not start so we rushed to check- yes it started so we moved to Nelson- a lovely cosmopolitan town apparently full of artists. What makes the town more special is that it has a gluten free bakery! We ate 2 pies and I think I can now say pies are n...

Yesterday we had an immediate response to our email about the little problems we are having with the van. A cool guy called Simon turned up with his kids to help us out. First he tells us we have no water because we have not switched it on-(we think Brian told us to leave that switch alone). Then he thinks the water tank is empty altho Brian filled it up when we were in the van and we have had no water since. So Simon drives the van to the middle of the site...