The Hughes Family Down Under Travels

Taupo, New Zealand

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:38:25 +0000

Isaac woke up at 5:00 obviously nobody could be asleep so he was loudly whispering about bob's mistake and how amazing it was, mum was then over the moon that she couldmake a dinosaur out of her finge...

Auckland, New Zealand

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:15:42 +0000

The last couple of minutes coming into Aucland were fab. the sunrise was great and at 37,000 feet the kids thought the low cloud below was ice. The cloudbroke when we got to NZ and descended. Nz looke...

Seoul, South Korea

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:03:30 +0000

It was a mad morning packing while Dad got out of it working. Glen Alfie's dad kindly gave us a lift and we familiarised him with our bizarre central locking technique on the van.Sarah saw us off.We t...

Liverpool, UK

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:09:21 +0000

Well the blog has been dusted off and we are all excited about going to NZ again. We had a fab time last time. We have a few new places to visit but the children all have a favourite place to revisit....

Dubai, New South Wales

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:40:34 +0100

We were on a A380 and I for one was very disappointed. Although a fantastic peice of engineering and the onflight cameras , entertainment etc being first class. (the stairs at the back of the ground...

Mount Cook, New Zealand

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:54:37 +0100

The rainforest walk stayed at Franz josef top 10 campsite and there was a huge collections of vans and backp...

Wentworth Falls, New South Wales

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:47:54 +0100

Life in the Camper van The van is 7.5m long quite big and too big for a parking space. Its 3.4m high also I...

Christchurch, New Zealand

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:16:37 +0100

Things we liked about NZ Tim Tams (chocolate biscuits like penguins but triple the Chocolate) Saints Wine Ee...

Sydney, New South Wales

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:12:56 +0100

We checked in with Emirates who by the way have looked after us brilliantly. We played the now familiar game...