Kia Ora Today we got up at 9.30am after 10hours of well deserved sleep!!! We first got the tram ride around Christchurch's main square and saw the main sites, such as :- the Botanical Gardens, The River Avon where you can go punting, The Cathedral, Art Galleries and Museums! This took around 30minutes to do, so after this we took several pictures and ventured by bus to the Gondola which is near a place called.....Norwich!!! There were also towns called Lincol...

Hey We have just arrived safely in New Zealand and eveything looks really nice especially the Base Backpackers where we are staying for the next three nights. Well yesterday we did our Jet Boat - and it definately was a great experience. We went slowly across the Harbour and under the Bridge before being thrown at 360 degree angles left and right and then going really fast and coming to a sudden hault!!! This took 50 minutes and was well worth the money - altho...

G'day This is going to be our last blog left whilst in Australia - as we are off to New Zealand tomorrow bright and early again!!! The day before last we just took it easy and did our souvenir shopping for you guys back home!! Yesterday as some of you know we came on line and updated the blog with some more pictures and spoke to our mums!! After that we walked down to Circular Quay and got the last of our souvenirs - we decided that we would post them home but...

G'day We are now back in Sydney after our early morning flight this morning. We had to be up at 4.30am......not good! Ken and Margaret dropped us off back in Melbourne yesterday luchtime after having a lazy day the day before. We went and saw Ken's brother and wife Jim and Denise who were very nice people and we also met Evelyn who is Ken's sister. We were told loads of old stories from the past about Waterloo road and Aylsham road in Norwich! Evelyn used to li...

G'day! Hope you are all well. We met Ken and Margaret at 9am on Saturday morning after a night in the worst accomodation ever (which we have to stop at again on Wednesday!) and began our journey to the Great Ocean Road. We saw some great sites! We stopped at Torquay Beach where we saw hundreds of surfers and we stopped at Bells Beach where they have all the surfing competitions. Teresa wanted to go and hire a surf board. lol. We travelled to the 12 Apostles and...