Hi Guys, we have finally made it to New Zealand! We left Sydney in a fair hurry on Thursday, having finally sold the car. Unfortunaltely we were in so much of a hurry we didnt buy any return tickets, which are required to prove that we werent going to try and stay in New Zealand forever (apparently), so cue my sprinting around terminal one desperately trying to buy cheap return tickets, not a great start!! We landed in Auckland 3 hrs later with relatively few hic...

G'day all, just a very quick update to say that we have finally, finally sold the car! And this means that as of tomorrow we will be in New Zealand for a month, the land of sheep and mountains (sounding scarily like wales....) Also, a big apology for those who have left messages on the messageboard - yup, wev only just found it too, so to michelle and tim especially, HI!!!  Sydney has been wicked to wait out the carselling malarkey - we had a wicked day at ...

What a difference a week makes. We finished the great ocean road in magnificent style, going past the stunning twelve apostles and various limestone formations that are battered by the rough southern sea. Then started the day long slog up into adelaide! the area is really dry at the moment, and the landscape seemed to never alter as we wound our way up towards the more fertile vinyards of the area. After a hasty stopover, we eventually got into adelaide on a su...

Hey everybody, since leaving Shepparton we have had an amazing time travelling down the great ocean road that will eventually lead us to Adelaide, our first stop was in a small seaside town called TORQUAY!! (yes you read that right) were we had fish and chips! since then we have spent two weeks travelling and stopping at some cool little campsites visiting other seaside towns with beautiful beaches (where Helen tried surfing! she almost got to the standing up sta...

Currently we are in Shepparton, which is 2 hrs north of melbourne in proper farming counrty, working our bums off picking pears!! Its not too bad - We're staying on the farm in fairly basic (!) accomodation (to those who know think of the hut oh webb family!), getting up at 5.45am to go out picking from 6.30am (when it eventually gets light enough to see the bloody fruit!) til around 4.00pm, or whenever we finish our 5 boxes, each of which is the size of a sm...