HELLO EVERYONE! Its been a while hasn't it?! Heres a quick round up of the last month or so. When we last wrote we were in Tauranga. From there we headed to the centre of the North island and Rotorua. Rotorua is a very geothermally active area and whilst we were there we went to see the geothermic valley. We watched the Lady Knox Geyser erupt and then walked around the geothermal attractions, which were crazily coloured lakes and steaming craters. It really ...

Hello Everyone! Just to update you on our last couple of weeks in New Zealand. We arrived in Auckland on the 1st August and quickly settled into our lovely rented apartment! It had everything we needed - a kitchen, bathroom, our OWN washing machine, DVD player - all sorts! We barely even wanted to leave it to explore Auckland!! Auckland is a nice city, although it rains pretty much every day! We had to traipse to the DVD rental place on more than one occasion! ...

HELLO EVERYONE!! (AT LAST!) We are very sorry for the long silence on our end - you would not believe how hard (and expensive) it is to find an internet cafe in Australia! Today we have arrived back in Sydney and headed straight for Global Gossip, the cheapest internet cafe in Australia it would seem (and thats saying something). We have just returned our trusty campervan Leonard after 2 1/2 months and 5123 Km (all driven by Tom) - and about 5.5km around a race...

Hello Everyone! We are alive - and sorry that it has been such a long time between blogs and photos! It has been hard finding internet cafe's in some of the out of the way places we have been staying! When we last wrote we were in Sydney about to fly to Cairns. Our flight went fine and we arrived in Cairns late - It was still much hotter than Sydney was! We stayed at a place called Floriana Guesthouse which was so old fashioned you would not believe. There we...

Hello Everyone from Australia!! We are very happy to be here after 4 1/2 months in Asia! As soon as we stepped off the plane in Sydney, it was sooo much colder than we were used to! It was lovely! On our first day here we went down to Circular Quay to see the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House! They really are amazing to see for real! We walked all around the area, called 'The Rocks' and went to a great market where we drank homemade lemonade! All along...