Hello from New Zealand everybody! Since Lois wrote our last blog we spent 3 nights on Robinson Crusoe Island (I don't think that's its real name), drinking more kava, watching more fire dancing and eating lots of bbq… good times! Even the bucket showers didn't stop us enjoying ourselves. After some very hot days in Fiji our time here was at an end, and late on 28 January we flew in to Auckland. The following day we picked up our Spaceship "Scarlet&q...

Bula from Fiji! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and new year. Hopefully the weather has improved back home… it's certainly not cold here in Fiji!! We arrived to sunshine and a very friendly bus driver to take us to our first hostel. After a couple of days in Nadi we headed off for a week of island hopping, which was fantastic. We started off on Coral view and pretty much lazed around all day and spent the evening skulling beers (I just watched...

Hi Everyone, I thought I would do a quick update before we left the US for fiji. Since we last wrote we stopped off at the grand canyon and the hoover dam before hitting vegas. Neither of us had been to Vegas before so we had no idea what to expect - although everyone had told us how big the casinos were I dont think we believed it until we actually saw them. We tried not to do to much gambling (we stuck with low stakes - but we did end up about $5 up so we ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hi All, Hope you all had a fantastic xmas.We have had a very busy month since we arrived here.The first few days were in Seattle (which is a fantastic place - definitely worth a visit). We were really lucky as it didn't rain once (apparently it rains pretty much every day there!) so we managed to do everything we wanted to - went up the space needle, rode a ferry boat (for Grey's anatomy fans - unfortunately there was n...