NZ - South Island After seven fantastic months we finally left sunny Australia for the shores of not so sunny New Zealand. We landed very late in Christchurch and quickly found our hostel and went straight to sleep, before waking to a pretty cloudy and cold morning (just like home!). Christchurch itself is pretty small compared to the other major cities we have visited so far, so we quickly found our bearings and headed for the information centre to find out a...

A couple of days after our last blog entry, we packed up the car and made our way out of Townsville towards Mission Beach. However we did not get very far!! An electrical problem with Alma meant that we had to get a tow back into town again to the RACQ garage, and book into a hostel for the weekend. Although this sucked at the time, we decided to make the most of a bad situation and go out on Saturday night to see how rocking Townsville is, turns out not very,...

Sydney to Cairns Part I We have now eventually left Sydney having spend the last 5 months living and working in the most famous Australian city, it's been great, but we're glad to be on the move once more. Our first stop was Port Macquarie, which was a fair trek and a good test for Alma to see if she was all better. Thankfully she went the whooe way without any problems whatsoever and driving is now a lot easier. By the time we got to Port Maquarie it was dar...

Sydney Part 3 Well after 5 months it is finally time to say goodbye to Sydney, it's been great to live in one of the most famous cities in the world, if also one of the most expensive, but the time has come to start travelling once more. Since our last post we have done quite a lot of sightseeing, we took a trip out to the Blue Mountains to catch the great views (see the photos), we also saw the 'Three Sisters' which are a formation of rocks that are believed ...

Sydney: Part 2 Finally got around to updating our blogs! Unfortunately, this will be a fairly short one as there is not much to report! In our last blog we mentioned we were working for Smart doing door to door sales - a week or 2 after writing that, we left the company as we were starting to hate the job! The money wasn't as good as we thought it would be and we began the task of job hunting all over again. Dave joined several agencies, and was lucky to be offe...