Hey everyone. We are terribly sorry to have fallen behind with the blog. Karen did write it all out which took nearly an hour for her then to lose it all (bummer)!!! So we are in New Zealand and have been busy getting a bank account, a tax number, phones and YEP a job. We start tomorrow night at a function in North shores waitressing with an agency for the moment, but give us chance we have only been here 2 days... The 2 days we have been here has been none st...

Road trip 1 = Sydney - Melbourne and back, 2100km's 10/11/07 We picked up the van which is to be home for 3 weeks. We have a double bed, a kitchen with sink and gas ring for cooking. No power steering or fan, but hey what more do we need for life on the open road. We actually emptied our bags for the first time this trip, which is great and we can also be more self sufficient, yep who would of thought cooking for ourselves would be something to miss. But furthe...

Hey everyone, just a very quick update to let you all know we are in Sydney, and yes it is raining and freezing cold. Big shock to the system after 6weeks in sunny Asia, also a big shock with how much stuff costs but thats only because Asia was also sooo cheap. So we have walked the city centre of Sydney taking in all the sites, including the magnificent Harbour bridge and opera house. Altho we arrived here feeling rather jetlagged and knackered!! We stayed in ...

Just a quick catch up before we leave Singapore, as we head to Sydney later this afternoon! Gill has been suffering with ear problems since diving, so yesterday actually went to the doctor, and he sent her away with drops, and 3 types of drugs...funny thing is she's been treated exactly the same way i woulda dog with an ear infection...is that coincidence!?! All drugged up we headed off on the public buses to Singapore Zoo, made it there and walked around for t...

We had a great flight into the huge airport at Singapore. We had been told in our guesthouse in Bangkok that we would need to pay a departure tax each of 700 Baht, so we changed some travellers cheques and kept this aside for checking in, however this had already been paid and included in our ticket price (bonus). So into the departure lounge we headed with 1500 Baht to spend before we left the country. This was not difficult to do as we headed to duty free for s...