Food , It's not all good Take pizza bases for example. The ability to produce sweet, ineadible pizza bases is almost an artform. Everyone has their own twist in the theme.

This is being written as it happens. We are on the inter islander, about to start the crossing of the cook straight. It's north island at 2pm. South at 5pm. With a room in a backpackers lodge booked fo 2 nights in picton. We are going wild. Q What next? A who knows Could be able tasman walk/ kayak Train to Christchurch. Campervans to anywhere Decisions, decisions, what to do?

2nd day on the piste we know what to do and are smoothly proficient until we get on the ski lift. It goes without me and then unceremoniously chucks us off at the top. steve says the bloke who picked us up and pushed us 'out of the danger zone' was bored as no one had fallen off yet. We made his day. Lorissa was really pleased to see us as she had been trying to teach a 4 year old very upset child and we promised we would not cry too. Steve started off well an...

2nd day on the piste we know what to do and are smoothly proficient until we get on the ski lift. It goes without me and then unceremoniously chucks us off at the top. steve says the bloke who picked us up and pushed us 'out of the danger zone' was bored as no one had fallen off yet. We made his day. Lorissa was really pleased to see us as she had been trying to teach a 4 year old very upset child and we promised we would not cry too. Steve started off well an...

We needed to let our aching bodies recover from ski school, or more accurately, recover from the abuse of constantly getting up from falls, collisions with snow Walls and overshooting the stop zone. When actually on skis it's just a bit of knee strain. So we went to taanaka thermal valley and baths. Well it was hot, after 20 mins in the mineral pool we were lobster red and thought a cold shower sounded good ( it must affect the brain). We compromised by going ...