Photo of said Bungee jump attached as promised!!!! Blog cont …….. Thursday evening we met up with Joe who is the son of our friends Anthony and Surinder. Joe has been over here since November and is staying just across the harbour. It was so brilliant to see him, we had dinner together followed by a few beers in an Irish bar and a little gig - not sure that it did much for Joe's street cred! Joe left us to catch the ferry back and we went back to the bar fo...

After an awful trip from Singapore to Melbourne with Qantas, old plane, old crew and even older food, had an hour delay in connection from Melbourne to Auckland but as it turned out arrived in Auckland only 20 minutes later than scheduled. (Now 13 hours time difference from UK!!). We got to the hotel late afternoon, pleasant surprise as it was on the Marina close to the city and has a real buzz to it. However Tom did have a little moan about our first room (for ...