We set sail across the Cook Strait and docked safely in the NZ capital of Wellington on the 24th of June. The weather is thankfully a little milder in the north, and we managed to follow the sunshine for the most part, even though 5 layers was still the norm! We visited 'Te Papa' the museum of NZ ('our place' in Maori) here, and had a well deserved rest. The magic bus took us up to Napier, the 'art deco capital of the world', thanks to a very stern earthquake an...

New Zealand, South IslandFirst thoughts, oh my goodness its cold. We flew out of a 'cold' Sydney at 20 degrees and into a FREEZING Christchurch at 1 degree celcius. Sheesh. Naturally our time in this picturesque city was spent buying socks, gloves, hats and long johns. We also tested out numerous flavours of the fabulous NZ pie. Simon is officially the pie monster of the southern hemisphere. (My time was to come at the Cadbury Factory tour!) We took the T...

7 weeks in Oz...Touch down in Adelaide on the 18th April (to the sounds of Ms. Minogue on the plane!!!) ALICE SPRINGS (Northern Terrirtories)... we spent 5 days in the red centre, 2 in 'Alice' where we visited the local rescue centre for baby kangaroos, and 3 on a brilliant trip to Ayers Rock (Uluru), the Olgas and Kings Canyon which included eating Chilli Con Camel, drinking VB, swimming in a billabong and sleeping in swags under the stars (and a few dro...