Well the wait is over the eagerly anticipated blog for North IslandNew Zealand is finally here. I begin by saying hello to all at home and letting you know that we are both in good health and good spirits. We arrived in Auckland in what seems to be months ago, it was infact around 4 weeks ago and those of you with a sharp eye will notice we should actually be in south America right now (thanks to some fortuitous ticket changing we leave tomorrow). When we arr...

Hi everyone! Well we arrived in New Zealand safe and sound and very heppy to have finally arrived in Christchurch! We arrived really late at night and luckily the airport shuttle took us straight to our door, after a small situation with the room that we booked (i.e the guy gave us the wrong room with no sheets or key and a smelly guy, so of course we woke him from slumber land to sort it!) we finally got into a nice big double bed for a long long sleep! We s...