Another long weekend and even though we're off on our two week South Island tour next weekend, we couldn't let this one pass us by with so much of NZ still to see!! This weekend we took a road trip, on what are considered two of NZ's 'Top 10 Roads'!! First we explored the East Cape, taking the Pacific Coast Highway a mere 320km to Gisborne. This drive was not without its beauty……. and its drama! The site seeing consisted mainly of coast line (rather desol...

Anniversary Weekend and a Trip to the Bay of Islands was in store. We had several plans, including a sky-dive, however this was not meant to be as both of us we're blocked up with head-colds. We didn't let this spoil our fun though. As usual we headed off after work, getting stuck in Auckland's Bank-Holiday weekend traffic but managing to reach our campsite at Bream Bay on time. Unfortunately, due to time, poor light and us feeling generally miserable, we de...

Happy 2012! Another long weekend to ring in the New Year and of course we had to go away. This is time we visited the Art Deco Capital; Napier. In the true spirit of New Year, we didn't go it alone, but with some friends Jamie and Anna. Other friends were also planning on coming along, but had some last minute cat sitting issues, leaving just the four of us! In contrast to last weekend's fab weather, it pissed it down all weekend and felt just like home! Ou...

Merry Christmas to you all!! We're just winding down after the long weekend and thought we'd fill you in on our Kiwi Christmas! Check out our Christmas album. It's been a busy few weeks through Christmas party season so we were glad for a typically long 'Kiwi Christmas' weekend with food, BBQ's, Skype, wine, food, camping, food, sun, sea and sand……then a bit more food! We decided to spend Christmas at home in Raglan as we are off to Napier next weekend ...

Just back from a road trip around the Taranaki region aboard the spacewagon! Once again we set off after work on Friday eve and headed for a town called Taumarunui, where we set up camp before the start of the Forgotten World Highway. This is a 150km highway, originally built to connect small mining towns to the rest of NZ, however now it's just a tourist drive since the miners packed up, leaving behind them almost deserted townships. It was full of random ...