Hello from not so sunny New Zealand its beautiful here and reminiscent of home which is strangely comforting after a few months in landscpaes of SE Asia and Australia. keeps raining though - ah well guess thats just part of the well rounded experience right? we've hired a car for this stretch of our journey which is refreshing and gives us a greater degree of freedom which basically means geodie is having the time of his life flying round new zealands deserted roads! however he is also left somwot distraught by the fact its an automatic car which 'gives me nought to do' blah blah blah. at any rate its wicked out here and we're gettin involved in all the cheap xtreme activities they have and generally livin it up (cheaply). x