Hawaii is 22 hours behind Fiji, so to fly here we crossed the international date line and went back in time, consequently we experienced Sunday 10th May twice! Eat your heart out Dr Who we can time travel too. First stop was on Big Island, also known as Hawaii, where the active vocanoes are. We stayed in a bed a breakfast near Hilo and hired a convertable Chrysler. Our land lady was very helpful, and with her guidance we visited; lava trees, lava tubes, walked t...

We stayed on the main island of Fiji, called Viti Levu, near to Nadi (pronounced Nandi) and tried to relax for the week, i.e. not too much sight seeing as it gets a bit wearing after a while. The Fijians are very friendly and want to talk and most of them genuinely want to know all about us, not just talking about themselves! We hired mopeds for 4 days and managed to get around a bit of the island. We did not go as far as we would have liked as the roads are ver...

Hi everyone, how's it goin', we're sweet! We have been shakin' our dags around the north island for the last two weeks. Abby has been trying to wear her jandals as much as possible (Eric does not have any). Yes we have been here too long and we have started to talk kiwi. Why say 'you're welcome' when you can say 'no worries'. We still love New Zealand, but have noticed a few anomalies that would make it difficult to live here permanently. Like the driving, gener...

Hi all! Having collected our campervan, we have commenced a sort of clockwise tour around South Island. You can camp anywhere here, unless it says otherwise. So we have paid to camp at a proper campsite (showers, plug in electricity, waste dump, clean water, laundry, etc) about one in every three nights. The others we have 'freecamped' out in the middle of nowhere or used NZ Dept of Conservation campsites for a nominal cost (toilet, and rubbish bin if you are luc...

Well we sure were relieved to leave Saigon , the day that we left the temperature was 97c and getting a bit much. So having landed in New Zealand, like a jilted lover on the rebound we have fallen for this place in a big way. It reminds us of home only brighter, cleaner looking and wider streets. The sun is shining, but you can walk down the street without producing a couple of pints of sweat. It is taking a while to get used to well behaved traffic, we have to...