Short version: rugby, Maori culture, and eggy smells Full version: We arrived in Wellington the day before the local rugby team, the Hurricanes, were playing against the Stormers in the Super 14 competition, so called because it's Super and there are 14 teams in it. They like to keep things fairly simple like that over here. Egg-chasing wasn't high on either of our favourite pastimes, but all the locals seemed very excited so off we went to the Westpac Stadium...

Summary: pootling around NZ in a campervan like Max & Paddy Full version: We've been in NZ for just over 2 weeks now, having flown into Christchurch from Fiji. For the first couple of nights we stayed in a hostel but then booked a little campervan and have been in that ever since. It's a little Fiat Ducato, which is transit-van size, and it's just about the right size for the 2 of us. At first we had a panic when all the major rental companies were booke...

Friday 13th March didn't happen in our lives. We set off in the plane from L.A. on 12th March, then at some point we crossed the international dateline and t was 14th March when we landed in Fiji. Jon is massively confused by this and has lots of questions, which starts to get on Kath's nerves pretty rapidly. But what did happen to that day? If you're going to lose a day I suppose Friday 13th isn't a bad choice, but still. If we've lost a day out of our live...