Well, having already started this installment and lost it to a computer that decided that crashing after I had written a good chunk of what I wanted to update you all on I am going to try again, albeit days later. At least I am on a different computer now and can only hope that this one won't play games with me!! We are in Cambodia at the moment, hence the picture of the Bayon temple faces at Angkor Thom. Cambodia is an enchanting country with a very infectious...

HI All, Happy New Year to you. We are currently in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia so are really behind in our updating of the blog which I believe has only got as far as New Zealand which is where we were 2 months ago. We have no real excuse for not writing anything other than the fact that we are too busy enjoying ourselves!!! So............... New Zealand, where shall I start? We flew into Auckland from Santiago on a non-eventful overnight flight (non-eve...

Well hello everyone! After a bit of a silence we thought we should get blogging again and update you on all the excitement that has been going on. As you'll see from the picture we are currently in Sydney but the last time we wrote we were about to leave Peru having completed our voluntary work and were flying to Santiago in Chile where we had a blissful 5 days of R & R. We stayed in a fabulous little eco hostel relatively close to the centre which had a v...

Ahoy hoy everybody. The last you heard, Vicki had just got out of hospital from her bug and we were about to start working at the school. Well, Vicki was still a bit ill from her adventure so I went to the school without her on the Monday and was introducted to the kids and teachers and spoke with Professor Jose who was to be our main point of contact for the week. We made plans that Vicki and I would create some abacuses for the younger kids to use. That after...

HI there one and all, As promised, here is our next update. We are currently in Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand hence the picture of the Split Apple Rock but I am going to bring you up to date with the rest of our Peruvian adventures as there's still lots to tell! So, we had got as far as Lima in the last update.... we ended up spending about 5 days in Lima so we used the time to take it easy and to wind down before starting our 3 week voluntary place...