Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Adelaide, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Cairns, Airlie Beach & Whitsundays We flew into Sydney and had just enough time to see the Opera House and Harbour by night, before picking up our hire car and setting off on the coast road to Adelaide. We only had four days for this part of the journey, and it turned out that we had seriously underestimated the distances and had to drive as much as 10 hours on some days, which di...

New Zealand: South Island (Abel Tasman, Marlborough wine region, Kaikoura, Greymouth, Franz Josef Glacier, Wanaka, Milford Sound, The Catlins, Oamaru, Mount Cook, Christchurch) Our journey around the South Island has been one spectacular event or vista after another. Some of the real highlights involved getting up close and personal with the wildlife. Sascha went swimming with about four hundred dusky dolphins at Kaikoura, they were so close that you could look ...

New Zealand: North Island (Auckland, Cape Reinga, Coromandel Peninsula, Rotorua, East Cape, Napier, Tongariro National Park, Whanganui, Wellington) After seven weeks of travelling by bus, it was a real luxury to pick up our hire car and hit the road. First we headed to the Far North, stopping off several times along the way to sample local cheese, honey and a farmers' market, before reaching Ahipara at the foot of Ninety Mile Beach (which our apartment overlooke...