So after our 5 day stop in Auckland, and a recommendation of where to go looking for work we head off to a small town on the west coast of New Zealand called Raglan.� With what will be our trusty Bongo?! � We head off onto the New Zealand open road.� With 3 hours on the road under our belt we arrive in Raglan.� Apparently we were told that this was a 5 hour drive, so either the bongo goes like the clappers or somebody w...

And so after the bustling smells and sights of Asia we arrive back in the western world of New Zealand. Via an 8 hour flight to Sydney (nice airport thats about all we can tell you) and then on a 2 hour flight to Auckland. Plus all the jet lag and the fact that we are sitting on the bottom of the world we were some what confused to the whereabouts of time and dates. So the first day/afternoon/evening was spent retrieving mental and physical alertness by the aid o...

So, Singapore.  So much to see, do and eat, and so little time to do it all in!  Thanks to some very helpful friends back home we were armed with our own little version of the lonely planet.  We'd already booked our hostel so we jumped from the Melaka bus to a local bus.  Once at the hostel we found out that our booking was not quite right shall we say.  So for the first night we were given our own room and very odd it was too - a dou...

Once again we don't dare disappoint with our epic tales of travel in south east Asia - this time not due to a shoddy bus, a dangerous driver, an unknown arrival time - but due to our own lack of patience!! We decided not to wait for the direct bus from Jerantut to Melaka, oh no, we took option B...... this involved a change of bus no less than 4 times - unbelievably still getting us to our destination quicker than waiting for the direct, and only costing us a...

So after sometime away, we're back updating again. All your nagging has paid off.............and yes we are backdating these so that it follows on and makes sense! So we wave goodbye to our lovely hostel owner who even drove us to the bus station at 7am, how nice. And again we're left standing like lost sheep waiting for a bus that might come on time or might just not bother turning up at all. Fortnuately for us the bus did turn up. But not how we were ho...