Hi, just a quick note to say that we arrived in Fiji yesterday and are off today to the islands for 10 days so may not have internet access for that time as i don't think that one of the places we are staying even has electricity so it's unlikely! Gutted to have to leave New Zealand, we had such a nice time staying with Graham there. The skydiving idea didn't happen by the way, we all went white water rafting and caving/abseiling/black water rafting/...

Hello all. We've been having a lovely relaxing time in New Zealand for about 2 weeks now. Based in Auckland at Graham's house (Nicola's relly) with Nicola's mum. We have spent our time doing trips around the area, eating good food and relaxing in the luxury of a westernised country. We can drink the water from the taps and everything!We all went north for a mini road trip a few days ago and got stranded in the largest flooding of 150 years which i...

Our last entry from South East Asia... So we landed safely in Bali after worrying loads about the flight. It's been a fairly eventful few days here in that Michael was pickpocketed by a motorbike riding ladyboy in a dark street at about 3am after going for a snack during the cricket with our American friend Mark. Not too much damage done, just an annoying day spent ringing various banks and insurers. Other than that we've just spent our time on the bea...

Well, what an interesting couple of weeks it's been! Our stay on the Gilli Islands was excellent, lots of sun and snorkelling. Kind of went downhill from there.... Had a couple of days to go and see Mount Rinjani in Lombok but it was thunderstorms the whole time so didn't even get a glimpse of the mountain through the cloud. So headed straight off to start our journey over land and sea to Flores, via Sumbawa. The first ferry was fine, just an hour and a h...

Hi, Just another quickie as the internet's not too cheap on remote Indonesian islands. After the mountain climbing expedition in Sabah (Malaysia) we went south to dive/snorkel off Sipidan Island, one of the world's top dive sites. It was indeed a top site and we did the best diving (Michael) and snorkelling (me) yet. Saw loads of huge turtles swimming all around us, really close up and lots of white tip reef sharks. Plus the usual range of tropical fish i...