hello again we've seen most of the south island since last time we wrote. we drove down to Milford Sound which was............wet, we got there and survived the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in 24hrs. we thought that our 'cruise' the next day would be cancelled but far from it, the crew were like tourists as they said they'd never seen so many waterfalls (there are only normally 4 on a calm day). Pen took some brilliant photos as the sun broke throug...

baaaaaaaaaaaaa we arrived in New Zealand on Monday night, and found our keys stuck on the side of the fridge and our sheets by the boiler (v.friendly these kiwi's). we spent the next day exploring christchurch, it has lots of british influences e.g a river avon!! Then we picked up of camper, its a proper campervan as the people at the company told us it'd be too chilly to take one with a roof tent, so we've got the Big Burd (Registration no. BUR791), she's s...

Hey everyone, We're now in Coffs after having a stopover in Port Macquarie for a couple of days. While we were in Port we went to the koala hospital and saw lots of koalas being nursed back to health. Lots of people get disappointed with there being so few koalas there but I think they muct forget that its actually a hospital not a zoo, so the fewer koalas there are, the better!!! We also saw the Australian National Ironman championship, all these crazy...

Hey guys......we're now in Newcastle (which I keep on calling Newquay for some strange reason!!!). Have been here all week and its been really nice to have some time to spend just chillin' on the beach - we've both gone quite a nice colour now. There is a surfest competition on at the mo, all the professionals should get here at the beginning of next week - just after we've left! We've seen some pretty amazing 13 and 14 yr olds surfing, including one girl wh...

we've arrived in Manly (a coastal suburb of Sydney) after an amazing few days in the Blue Mountains. We caught the train up to Katoomba on tuesday and rode around on a red london bus, which was a bit bizarre. We walked down to echo point to supposedly look at the three sisters rocks but we could just about see the end of our noses it was so misty, so we amused ourselves trying to take pictures of a parrot as the rest of the tourists left. Then as pen was tr...