What a day, nothing like last minute stress to make you feel alive. 9am turned on my beautiful new beast of a laptop and nothing happened!!! What this can't be I thought, I only bought this in December, mmmm what to do next, get in the car and head to JB-HIFI where I bought it and get a replacement, not settling for anything less. To be fair they were great but it meant a trip to Manukau City the only store that had a new one. Thanks to Rod driving, as...

Merry Christmas, Pascal & the Nomads are off on the new Air New Zealand direct service to Houston and then onto Tequila country for tastings then cigar smoking Cuba for a cycling adventure. Big hope for Air NZ putting on Christmas dinner for us with endless champers - so will let you know how that goes. Follow us along our adventure...... I'm sure there will be lots of laughs.

So I've been back over a week in Otane and we have had the fire going everyday!!! Focusing on work and getting busy again so thats good people are still travelling.   The biggest thing to happen in New Zealand in the last week is the elections, thank goodness we only came back two weeks before because I was sick of hearing about it. Time for a change yes but which monkey is the best mmmmm well I don't really have any confidence. Well our government d...

Singapore Airlines once again AMAZING service is all I can say, the staff were exceptional!! Smiling and constantly coming around with drinks, collecting rubbish, there wasn't 1/2 that went by that they were offering you something, the opposite of Swiss Air from the previous evening. The flight was chocka too - Good on Rod for taking the middle seat, I have to have an aisle otherwise it does my head in and claustrophobia sets in. My mind wanders back to the...

So I've landed back in Aotearoa "land of the long white cloud" except today I'll call it land of the p...... down!!!!  Pascal has decided to write this blog to give our friends and friends of friends in Europe an insight into "The Real New Zealand." Yeah there's lots of crazy adventure junky activities that attract people from all round the world to come and it is a beautiful country but tourist don't see the real life unless they come and help...