Hello everyone, hope you are all well!!!! Since our last blog we've been in the South Island for 4 weeks, and we've absolutely loved it. It started in Nelson where we took a day trip to hike in the Abel Tasman National park which was a very beautiful place. We were due to stay in Nelson 3 nights but ended up staying 5 due to heavy snow further down the country closing the roads, it was a bit Groundhog Day. However the upshot of this was we met some fantastic peo...

CONGRATULATIONS TO KRISTIE AND FILIPE ON THE ARRIVAL OF TWIN BOYS SANTIAGO AND JOEL!!!!!!!!! We are so happy for you both and can't wait to see you all at Christmas. We love you loads and miss you Uncle Bob and Auntie Gem xxxxxxxxxxxxx

It's update time again folks.......... Since leaving the Cook Islands and arriving in Auckland the weather has been some what different.... but we dont mind because it reminds us of home. We spent a few days in a wet and stormy Auckland, which we thoroughly enjoyed, but was ready to move on out of the city to hopefully better weather. We headed for Whitianga (pronounced Fitianga??????) on the Coromandel Peninsula which is a nice little coastal town, which I ima...

The Kenyons in New Zealand OK, OK, OK.... I know we only updated the site a couple of days ago, but we have just arrived in Auckland at our lovely B&B that we have just been moved to from our original hostel, because the elderly woman who was meant to vacate our room has slipped on a slippery wet surface and caused herself injury and cannot move (but thats another story), so therefore we've been sent to a B&B closer to the city centre for the same rate, ...