Clare writes:
New Zealand. Sometimes it's like England. There was an hour the other day where it looked like Scotland. But mostly, so far, it looks like Wales.
We landed in Auckland, staying in Hamilton for a few days before my raucous gig at the Thirsty Dog - raucus because it was St Paddy's Night and I was on straight after the punk Irish band!! I'll get some pics up soon, but am just about to upload the Fiji ones.
Anyway, we've hired a car for 46 days and headed south to catch what's left of late summer on the South Island... but having arrived here today it's already pretty chilly!

Sheila is behind in blogs just now as her hands are still incapacitated - see pics in the Fiji albumn! - and is waving pathetucally instead to all our readers!!