We met my dad at the airport, he was not expecting us to meet him, so got a hopefully nice suprise. Once we got my dad settled into the kiwi way of living we set of to Taupo, which is also on the same fault line as Roturua, so has all the hot water springs and stuff but lckily without that lovely egg smell. The one reason why we came here was to do a............................ 12,000 metre tandem skydive!!!!!!!!!, (it's the cheapest in the world apparantl...

Well we have arrived in New Zealand, after a uneventful couple of flights. Auckland is just like any city in England, very busy and hectic, but hopefiully a great place for us to buy a campervan in. We have also just meet up with James (Martin's brother) and his girlfriend, Sarah, who are working out here. It is really great to see some familiar faces again and had a great time celebrating MArtin's 25th birthday in a few of Auckland's bars and clubs. ...

We had a great few days recoperating back in England, and it was lovely seeing family again, but yes we have started travelling again. We arrived in Singapore feeling hot and tired, having travelled for 13 hours and having a 7 hours time difference. The heat here also takes a bit to get use to as it is about 30c plus everyday. Alhtough this is nice for the evening as it means that you don't have to wear a coat or jumper. The food is very cheap here, but t...

After all of the museums, churches and art galleries in Italy and Paris, Nice was a welcome break for us. It is really hot and ideal weather to explore to beach of Nice on the French Riveria, I could really get use to living here. Also if you look far enough into the hills surrounding Nice you can see Elton John's very pink house. We have also been choosing which is the million pound houses, cars and boats we would like to own, we can but dream. ...

ON our way to Florence, we stopped off at Pisa and yes we took the tacky photo of us holding the leaning tower of pisa up and yes it actually was leaning quite alot. After driving through the beautiful Tuscan countryside we arrive in Florence, which seems much more relaxed than Rome andf Venice. In the town which has beautiful winding cobbled streets, and boosts the famous statue of David (girls, I tell you he's actually not that well endowelled!) Flore...