Back to 'Windy Welly' (and it certainly is) for four days. This time we did some proper sightseeing here: They have the fabulous national museum - Te Papa - which has brilliant displays and exhibitions, including the 'Colossal Squid', a four metre monster caught in the cold southern ocean a couple of years ago. She would make seriously big calamari rings! We also went to a great Japanese restaurant where Floss & Max insisted on sitting on the floor as the Nih...

OK, back again! Let's fill you in on the last three weeks: Christmas in Queenstown was great: There is so much going on in that town: White water rafting; paraglide/sail; jetboating down the Shotover river; gondola rides up a mountain then lugeing (dry bob-sleigh) part way down; sailing the beautiful lake on an old steamship; flying in one of the many helicopters over the glaciers, awesome fjords and Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain. All this and we ha...

We arrived in Auckland from Cairns late in the evening, as NZ is three hours ahead of Queensland. (We are now 13 hours ahead of UK time because there is 1hr daylight saving here). Floss and Max were both very proud to be awake still at midnight! Auckland is a lovely city, built on top of a live volcano field (there are over 30 in total, though some are dead). There is also a lot of water here - it is known as the City of Sails. On our first days, here we took a f...

Hamilton Island was a lovely respite after Club Med. The only form of transport - apart form the island buses - are golf buggies, which are available to hire. We had good fun exploring the island with one. We had a great hotel room on the 19th floor with amazing views. The only problem was Stef didn't like the external glass lifts (not a head for heights). After a couple of nights here, we headed off for our 'Reef Sleep': a night on the Great Barrier Reef on a fl...

OK, sorry, its a been a while: We have had some technical problems (a virus meant we had to wipe the lap top and transfer data etc.) but actually we've also been busy travelling and having fun too, so we have been remiss in our blog duties. But we're online again now! This is what we've been doing since the last blog: Wed 15 October, fly to Penang (Malaysia) and stay in Georgetown. Lunch at malay cafe Sup Hamed, a simple cafe where you choose your curry fro...