Hi all, well since I last typed. I have enjoyed lots of great things and have just uploaded some more photos. We are in Queenstown now and tomorrow we fly to Sydney. We've been away 3 weeks and feel totally refreshed and relaxed. The Killers are playing in this cafe. Where was I? Well in Kaikoura. We joined our whale tour boat and were warned about sea sickness. Anyway, I remember years ago being on a hover craft with my family. We were crossing the english chan...

Dear All, thanks ever so much for all your messages and emails. We've been in the wilderness for the last few days but here we are after a spectacular (sp??) drive in Kaikoura. I am in an internet cafe called Global Gossip. Cool, hippy and playing my favourite band Coldplay very loudly. Doesn't seem so long ago that I saw Coldplay in concert in Birmingham with James, Mike and Steve. Gosh that night was cold. And now I am hot hot hot! Well Kai means food and Koura...

Hi, just uploaded some pictures as requested and thanks everyone for your various messages. Really fun to hear from you! We've had a lovely day today. We travelled an hour to Abel Tasman National Park and joined a group and picked up a water taxi that took us to a small tiny totally uninhabited island so we could all jump in the water and swim with seals. I had a snorkel and mask and looked into the water and a seal was feet from me looking straight at me with hu...

Here we are in Auckland recovering from 26 hours inside a plane. Yesterday was really hot and we ended up on Cheltenham Beach (idyllic: empty, blue water, white sand) on Devonport island. Today we are a little hotel bound by the rain. Auckland is known for unpredictable weather! Tomorrow we fly to Nelson which is north of the south island. We move to self-catering accommodation from this lovely Langham hotel. This morning we had a gym workout and we've just been ...