Pearl Beach was the site of a weekend away from the kids for rob and rach, and a beautiful engagement treat from them to us. Pearl Beach is about 2 hours north of Sydney, opposite Palm Beach (location of Home & Away set) and a fantastic place to spend the weekend. We arrived long before other weekend trippers did as R & R weren't working and despite a bit of a worry about the rain that threatened, we walked to the nearest pub in Patonga, two hours along ...

Arriving back in Sydney from melbourne we headed just down the road from Rob and Rach's to stay with Steve's friend Jo for a couple of days before heading off for our mystery weekend with Rob and Rach. Jo and her boyfriend james took us to the local pub where we felt pretty underdressed as the Bondi beautiful people were out in force. The following evening we met up with the family at the local Icebergs club where young James was helping with the raffle as well a...

Just two days with the family in Sydney and we flew up to Melbourne to stay with Lisa and Hoges, before Muz flew back to Blighty for a wedding and Christmas. Fortunately for me, Muz had just finished her teacher training course so plenty of time for renewing our university activities; trashy magazine reading, boozing and eating. Fortunately, nothing was too arduous for Steve either. Four seasons in one day, as Crowded House say isn't just a saying in Melbourne a...

After dropping Muriel off in Christchurch airport we hopped on our flight to Sydney, spectauclar views as we flew over the Southern Alps with one final view of Mount Cook. Arrived in Sydney and jumped in a cab to see Rob, Rachel, James and Izzy which was really nice. We spent the evening getting pretty piddled and then were lucky enough to have James wake us up nice and early for Lightning Mcqueen races. After a little nap we headed out for a wander down to Bondi...

After a swim, a shower and farting around with petrol in Christchurch we headed over to the airport and left Muriel, without giving her a proper goodbye we're ashamed to admit, and headed to the airport. We have had a great time here, the scenery is really spectacular, especially as there is so much of it in such a small location, it's amazing all the different places we have visited although we did drive 3,856 km in three weeks and still didn't make it all the w...