Hi.. love reading your blogs, want to do it now! Make sure you get your All White gear on in Italy!! Enjoy the sunshine there - we have had enough rain over the last month to make up for most of summer. Take care and safe travels ;-)

Hi -well it all sounds so lovely-what an adventure! Really enjoying reading your accounts. Take care and carrying on having fun you lucky things. Love The Kirbys xx

Hi Guys

Have just up-dated myself on your blogs and photos. Europe looks fantastic, lots of memories flooding back of past visits. Great to see your smiling happy faces and some fantastic staged shots, that must be Stevens expertise! Good to see that you're still taking the rough with the smooth and making the most of everything! Hope to see you in Italy soon! K + D xxx

Hi there Pippa, Sam and Libby (sorry we didn't meet Mr Alsengeest). Glad you are having a great time of it and keeping up your travel blog. We are going to view your French exploits and get a few tips. If we don't see you along the way then we may call for a brew when in NZ. XX

This blog entry is my favourite so far! Your description of Barcelona brought back many happy memories of the days we spent there - loved that market in Las Rambles! Also got quite drunk on Sangria in that market!! I know you'll love Cinque Terre - the kids will enjoy the swimming that blue blue sea. Try the Olives there - best I've ever tasted! You missed absolutely nothing at the beach over the long weekend - raining, blowing, sea was rough. Did a lovely 750 piece puzzle! Keep those breathing exercises going when things get stressful :-) Your driving experiences will be part of your best memories!!

How r we all.sorry for been so slake in repling but trying to operate a computer for the first time. Everone here r doing fine lala has big poku bryce busy at tech karl playing for ist fifteen Itlooks like u guys r haven a ball over there .Fishing doing great at lake still geting amega put into our body.All the best and will try and keep my computer skill up and running. all the best TONY DIANE LALA JASON BUBS BRYCE DEMIE AND KARL

Hi Sam and Libby. You look like you are having a great time and will get a lot of use out of those bikes. Its been wet here and not too cold but I am envious seeing you standing for your photos in lovely sunshine with shorts and t-shirts on. School holidays are at the beginning of July so hope it fines up for those as the girls and I will head to the beach for a few days. Take care. Debbie xxxx

Some things don't change i.e. you still struggling to get off your butt Steven. Good to see you all and catch up on what's been going on. Visions of your "calmness " comes to mind Steven as you relayed getting lost. Probably just as well that the van is airconditiioned and you were in a foreign speaking country! Take care and safe travels xxxx

Goosie smugglers. God help us all.

Love the Barcelona photos. Looking at the message board we have enjoyed the same weekend weather as the Kiwis - again.!! Wish summer would hurry up here too! Enjoying sharing your travels.

Hi Guys,

Great to hear all your news. All good here, very wet and very boring compared to you! Would love to have been a fly on the wall in your campervan when you got lost......both times, hoped the air conditioining was working well? Steve sounds like Roy, thats why we bought him a Navman for fathers day...still I know he can always get home! Apparantly you can get tomtoms for bikes now!!! Roy said the grass is growing well and the payout has gone up so there might be a job for Steve when you get back, good relief milkers are hard to find, but he said Steve will do!!

Happy travelling, look forward to your next news.

Holiday Monday today (Queens Birthday) What an amazing time you are all having, great to see a few photos of you too Steven, just loving the photos and the messages. The Sagrada hasn't changed much since Dad and I were there 25years ago still cranes on top!! Lucky kids with your new bikes, did you all get them? What fun.The Chisholms were here Saturday night and of course Ebby and Annie too we took them for a big walk in the reserve yesterday what fun they had in and out of the stream just great. At the Wilsons last night for a catch up. This comes with heaps of love to you all. All fine here.xxxxxxxx