So we had fun in Queenstown for a few days. Zak went mountain biking on the Queenstown downhill track, the bike was crap but Zak had fun anyway. We walked up the track the next day and it looked pretty hectic to Mel! It's graded as a black (like with skiing) so way too technical for Mel. We went on the luge at the top and raced each other down the track. Zak - 2 vs Mel - 1. We took a drive up to the Mt Remarkables ski area which was a pretty hairy drive up,...

Hi everyone. Just a short (I promise!) postcard to let you know we're are both good and everything is going well down in Queenstown. It's really great to be back together but it was also really nice to miss each other - having spent every day together missing each other is not something we'd previously been able to do!!! Anyway, we spent a few nights in Auckland and about 3 days in Raglan. We had some great fun out surfing and there were some decent waves whi...

Hi everyone! Hope you are all good. Am back in Auckland now for a few days just chilling out. The bus trip was really cool and just what I needed - not having to worry about any driving, meeting new people (even if some of them were complete donuts!) and getting to see all the top spots in the North Island. The weather let us down for the first few days up in the Bay of Islands - bit of a shock to the system having come from Oz. My rain mac was worn on too m...

Kia Ora everyone, well I got to Auckland last night and arrived safe and well. I'm off on a tour of the North Island tomorrow with www.flyingkiwi.com - doing the 'hot rocks' tour. Been checking out the city today, been to see a Maori show at the Auckland museum and going up the sky tower (in the picture) this afternoon. Have just done our last postcard from Oz too - so make sure you have a read of that. Not sure if I'll get to an internet cafe on my t...

Thanks to everyone for your messages we really love receiving them and hearing about what's going on at home. Headed towards Golden Bay (top of the South Island) for New Years and stayed in a place called Takaka which is a chilled out place with lots of artsy shops, etc. While we were up in Golden Bay we checked out Farewell Spit - where a lot of whales getting stranded (there were over 100 just before Xmas). Went to a tiny wee town called Collingwood and also...