The first stop on our road trip was Whitianga, which is situated on the Coromandel Peninsula about 2 hours from Auckland. After filling the boot and back seats full of bags and camping gear we headed to the east coast. The journey took us through the Coromandel forest where we got to see some lovely scenery. The car we have rented is a small 2005 Daihatsu Sirion and is very easy to drive and having power steering unlike the good old fiesta made it alot easier. At...

Well we've made it to New Zealand and come back down to earth after our trip to Fiji. It was definately difficult getting back into travelling mode after being so relaxed! We arrived into Auckland and it wasn't too much of a shock to the system as its the summer here and although not as warm as Fiji it was still around 25 degrees. We have spent the last four days here and will leave tomorrow. We have been busy while we have been here, catching up on washi...

Bula everyone! Our two weeks in paradise have come to an end and we've had an amazing time, it feels like we've been here forever. Fiji is such a beautiful place with the friendliest of people on earth. We spent the majority of our time here out on the Yasawa Islands on an organised trip. We felt it would be the best way to see as much as we could. Our twelve day trip took us to five different islands spending a couple of nights on each. Each island had i...

Happy New Year! We are here in Fiji and will be heading out to some of the smaller islands tomorrow, where we won't have internet access. The weather here in Nadi is scorching hot and we'll be disappointed if we don't come back with golden tans. We will update our journal with our experiences and stories when we get back to Nadi. Speak to you in a couple of weeks!

Well we're back in LA for New Year and would like to wish everybody a Happy New Year and best wishes for 2007. On new years eve we are going into Santa Monica, where theres a celebration on Santa Monica Pier to see in the new year, which should be good. We arrived safely yesterday on one of the shortest flights we've both ever been on at just 35 minutes and one of the smallest planes we've ever been on, the width of the plane was only 3 seats wide, very cosy!! We...