hello from a rather soggy and bedraggled ben and emma!its been raining the last couple of days and windy for even longer, so its a bit rubbish when you're in a campervan and new zealand consists of mostly outdoor activities!having said that we have had some really lovely weather the last few weeks. since the last update we have been sailing in the bay of islands and lots of beach days with ben surfing and em body boarding. we have a crazy fun time in waitomo ca...

Ben here, my first blog entry! Landed in Auckland on 16th and spent a few days there as we decided to buy a Campervan rather than rent one. Check out the picture, like the brown stripe? very retro. We had some repairs required before we bought her but now we are underway. Stopped at a very hippie campsite that over looked Goat Island, a couple of hours north of Auckland. We throughly tested out whether the van was watertight with a huge cyclone (NZ for big sto...

hi all! bit of a tropical rainstorm in rarotonga today, but we've had 10 days of blazing sun otherwise. been scuba diving and canoeing round the islands. went to a crazy island night with maori dancing and ben went fishing - the marlin still eludes him but we had some fantastic tuna dinners. leaving for auckland sunday. em and ben xxx p.s. emma has no phone signal

kia orana been having a lovely time in rarotonga, cook islands. its scorchio but we're properly chilled out after our hectic first couple of weeks. we've hired a moped to travel aroud the island and explore (it takes less than an hour to get round the whole island). there are beautiful beaches the whole way round, and we're getting pretty tanned! we have a cute wooden hut on stilts in the jungle - rather like our own treehouse with balconcy. we're surrounde...

hello hello! that blues bar in san francisco was fab - the music was great and we met a couple of guys from ukraine who gave us some lavendar! had a great drive out of san fran over the golden gate. wine country: went to sonoma and napa valley to visit the vineyards and tried some yummy wine. lake tahoe: had a really scarey drive into the mountains, it was getting late and we were getting higher and higher and kept seeing more snow, until it was dark and sno...