G'day mates Me and the cook arrived in the big smoke (Sydney) on 3 November. We checked into our hotel, which was near Darling Harbour and within cooee of the waterfront. We went walkabout over the next few days and saw a lot of the main tourist sites, the Opera House, the Coathanger, the Rocks, the Observatory and Circular Quay. We had wanted to see something at the Opera House, but as usual, we hadn't planned anything, and more importantly (to Steph), we didn...

Okay amigos, this is a long overdue blog entry for New Zealand. It's taken us a while to get somewhere with good enough internet to be able to sort out the blog, but we've set aside today to do so. We're currently in Hanoi, having been to Australia and Thailand (more of them later) since leaving New Zealand just over a week ago. Arriving in Santiago airport after a long journey by bus and plane out of Patagonia, we immediately boarded our night flight to Auckl...