Steve Taylor I have thoroughly enjoyed following your progress and will now be experiencing severe blog withdrawal symptoms! Plane sailing or perhaps sail planeing x

Mum & Dad P Read at 21:14 Auckland time. So you have already been on the plane for 3 hours. Therefore no chance that you will read this. See you at the airport

Steve Taylor Have been wondering what to put for my last comment or two and have decided you need a few really bad jokes!! What do you do to wake lady ga ga up? p-p-poke her in the face..... Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill? to get to the bottom....

Steve Taylor Enjoy the days ahead. As those in the deep south would say; I hope the weather is deeVAN..........

Wendy Sounds like heaven.

Steve Taylor It sounds amazing, while you were in Hobbiton I hope you TOOK a good look around you BIFUR you left. I wonder at the local food, a veritable SMAUGisbord......

yvette sounds great,super size kfc yum yum. So where are you going to on the way home? xxxxxxxxxxxx

Steve Taylor Bearing in mind the previous comments about the New Zealand birds I am wondering whether they are hatched from UGGS.....

Steve Taylor Good to hear you had a good time with a few beers and a pizza. I think the local sheep farmers go to a slightly different place , called the baah district.......

Steve Taylor Knife making is always something I have wanted to have a stab at......

Steve Taylor It must have been amazing to trawl all over the glacier. I had a friend who was very interested in that sort of stuff. Nice girl, only had one leg. I think her name was Ilene....

Mum R Oh my word Steve!! NZ sounds wonderful and we are really glad you saw Gillian and crew. Am assuming you haven't been able to put photos on this for a while. We are looking forward to seeing them. Mind you I gather you have taken so many that we might need another 9 months to view them all...

Jan Lockyer Hope the weather is good, and ofcourse you have had the bank holiday, I know Jo and the family have been camping again this weekend. It all looks so good, have not been that far down, only as far as Hamner Springs, although I have friends in the area. Continue enjoying yourselves, had I been 20 years younger, I think I to, would have moved to N.Z. It is beautiful, and not so rush,rush,rush. Have you tasted the real fruit ice creams? I like the boysonberry best!!

Steve Taylor The photos look awesome and I can see why they filmed Lord of the Rings in this country. Tolkein of that, watch out for the glacier, you don't want to slip upl and end up with a Gamgee leg! As for the driver of the Land Rover I can only assume they must have been one Aragorn b*****d!