While being serenaded by our taxi driver on the way to the airport this morning I was musing about what kind of blogger woodyweb should be. The gusher - a blog full of how wonderful everything is. The Bradshaw - documenting in detail all trains plains and taxi rides. The self discoverer - how travelling broadens the mind and helps one discover oneself The Michael Palin -full of stories about wacky people. I guess woodyweb will be bit of all of these so hope...

Hello everyone. We've activated our blog after some time as we're on our travels again. This time we're off to New Zealand with a couple of cheeky days in Singapore. Since our last big trip social media and technology have made keeping in contact much easier but I'd like to think that the Woodcocks were a but ahead of the game by setting up this blog! We'll be using our tablet this time so no looking for Internet cafés just some where to charge it! We're ...

We're home! Ok we have actually been back since three oclock last wednesday afternoon but it has taken this long to recover. The journey from Buenos Aires to Paris took 12.5 hours but the plane did have screens in the backs of the seats so we were able to pass the time watching films and looking at the progress of the plane on the map. The flight from paris to manchester only took 50 minutes and because of the time difference we arrived 10 minutes before we s...

Hi, this is our last moring of our trip and we thought we would just update you to say that we hope that our flights are ok and we should get home sometime on wednesday afternoon. It´s raining here in Buenos Aires so we are not too sad to be leaving. We are both looking forward now to coming home. Harriet is especially looking forward to the garden and seeing sooty again. Mike is looking forward to home cooking and being able to put the loo paper down the l...

Here we are at our last day at the beach before returning to Buenos Aires for a couple of days and then they flight home. Boo hoo! We have been staying in a small cabaña set in pine woodlands 300m from the sea. The area has lots of cabañas and a some shops and restaurants in the centre. All the roads are sandy, there are few street lights and the area has lots of dogs that bark a lot but seem friendly enough, in fact the three dogs that live in teh ...