Took the lunch time ferry from Wellington to Picton on Monday after trawling the town to find Lolly some ‘Sea legs’!! A local had also recommeded Ginger Beer so once on board we ordered fish and chips and some ginger beer to wash down the spectacular scenery on the cruise out of wellington into the cook straight and entering the Marlborough Sounds to Picton. We then procedded to make the mistake of checking into the seediest and most dodgy camp site for the n...

Arriving in Auckland, New Zealand, to heavy rain and a mid day temperature of 6 degrees , was what we could only describe as a severe shock to the system, having aclimatised nicely to the average 36 degrees we had just left behind in Fiji!!! Both freezing cold and looking like Brits abroad dressed unsuiatably in summer clothes, we got the bus in to Auckland to find our first proper hostel, BASE. Walking through the town and of course round some shops, we got sp...

Arrived in Fiji late, and both absolutely knackered. We were welcomed with the most relaxed and friendly immigration people encouraging us to stay! We were given a shell necklace each and told to wait in an office where we were given our tour passes etc. The lady in there was really friendly and eventually told us to go out and wait around the corner and our transfer bus would be along in a minute to fetch us. Needless to say, by the time they had finished chatti...

Sorry for the delay in setting up the blog and the lack of contact, we haven’t forgotten about you all at home! We discovered that communicating from China was more limiting than we both first realised, as we found it was totally impossible to read the instructions on the screens in the internet cafes, as everything was in chinese and nobody there could understand us! And in fiji we were lucky if we had our own room and weren’t sharing our room with a bird n...