Hello everyone! So this is our last blog . . . its hard to believe we have been away for 9 months! and that we have been diciplined enough to blog so regularly. . . anyway I thought you might like to look at few end of trip statistics: Countries visited - 22 - Germany, croatia, hungary, czech republic, austria, bratislava, poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, russia, mongolia, china, hong kong, vietnam, laos, thailand, cambodia, malaysia, singapore, australia, n...

Hi everyone, Morning from Auckland. Only three more days to go....... Its been a fun few days. We had a lovely sleep at Julies - its amazing how small that van was. We got up late and went to the beach. Julie has a caravan set up at the seaside so we jumped in the van and headed down. We spent the afternoon watching Dean take part in a surf competition. The surf was a bit lame but I still got to see him do a handstand on a surf board. He didn't win so god alon...

Hi everyone from Whangerai. Since our last blog we have spent a few days in the bay of islands. The first day was lovely and bright. The second day it rained heavily, very heavily. So we spent the morning hiding in the van. Luckily by lunch it had completely gone so we set off for Whangerai. When we arrived we spent the afternoon at the movies. The next day we got up and spent the next morning at the movies (again). The afternoon we spent seeing the falls, the...

Hi everyone from Whangerai. Since our last blog we have spent a few days in the bay of islands. The first day was lovely and bright. The second day it rained heavily, very heavily. So we spent the morning hiding in the van. Luckily by lunch it had completely gone so we set off for Whangerai. When we arrived we spent the afternoon at the movies. The next day we got up and spent the next morning at the movies (again). The afternoon we spent seeing the falls, the...

Helloo, Sorry for cutting the last blog short but we had to run to catch the coach to Hobbiton! We spent the afternoon in the sun wandering around the hobbit holes and gardens - because they are still filming the Hobbit at the mo the set is still all covered in props and vegetables! It was beautifull, I may be changing our front door for a round one when we get home! So after leaving Matamata we headed north toward aukland, stopping just outside the city to cam...