Dear All Well it seems some time since we last updated the blog properly. 1st internet cafe to allow proper access at a reasonable price!! Great to hear from you all. well done Mum for catching up with modern computer technology - especially before Deb!! Pleased that the postcards are at last getting through, I winder if you have received any from Chile as we posted them at some remote place in the mountains? Big congrats to Julia as new grandmother but especail...

Hi anyone still out there!  We have been having such a wonderful time here that internet has taken a back seat - also we had free - if limited access in S America and we have to pay over here.  We will be coming back here for certain.  We're in Lake Taupo haven driven up from a beautiful Wellington today.  (Betty - your city was stunning with super weather and friendly people all over.)  Off to have a mud bath tomorrow - so Jane tells me.  We tr...

We are mow at Fox Glacier which is a pretty small 'township' on the west coast after a 260Km drive from Wanaka ( beautiful place where we stayed at the Edgewater resort (great deal offered so had to take it).  Room overlooked Lake Wanaka and we walked along the west side of the lake this morning before heading north through the Haast Pass which was a fantastic drive - clear skies but with clouds over the mountains showing where the snow falls.  We went to a...

Very quick update.? In Queenstown which is stunningly beautiful with clear blue skies so someone is being kind to us.? Off on the Shotover this afternoon which is meant to be awesome ride and then to Dart River safari tomorrow where a lot of the Lord of the Rings was? filmed.? Will do more later. Run out of time on the cafe. 21st 9.45 pm - update.Well the Shotover Jet was well worth doing. Queenstown speciality as they have jet boats that enable them to...

Well we spent our last days in Chile in bright sunshine, although the autumnal winds began to blow. Took the car down to the coast to the surfing centre at Pichalamu - no traffic on the road - Got stopped by the police and did not have the correct paper work (quote its all your fault!) He did not speak any english so B gave him his PADI diving card which he seemed accept and sent us on the way - phew, had visions of ending up at the police station!! Wonderful coa...