Hi all!Well, I think the picture above is something like LA will look like if my experiences of Hobbiton are anything to go by. You would think a movie set would be glamourous. Er, no. You have never seen so many sheep in your life (even in Wales) and the hills, rolling, is an understatement.Hobbiton is the only location with bits of set still remaining. It is all on a sheep farm in Matamya (?). One line cinema found the location after doing an indepth aerial sur...

Hi all! Am a bit hummm. . . today! Have been trying to sort out the US leg and it is all a bit more complicated. Have sorted out LA (am staying in Hollywood which sounds great but was speaking to a girl from Michigan last week and she said some bits are a bit grubby)and will do the rest next week. Ideally I was gonna do Vegas with LA then San Diego and San Francisco (my bridge fetish) but it looks like I can only do one or the other and there is not a l...

Hey! I have a confession to make. . . despite a bumpier start, I am starting to fall for New Zealand. The sea safari today was absolutely amazing and (apart from the skydive), the views were the most amazing I've probably ever seen. Better then the Blue Mountains, the Japan snow. It is another world out there on the ocean. We were out there for five hours. As it was a safari, there was no guarantee of seeing anything and the search area was 2000km wide so...

Hi from the 'City of Sails'!It was 19 degrees yday. Not bad for the middle of autumn and no rain. . . yet!There are boats, boats and more boats here. The enthuasism for the water must be a bit infectious though because I am dying to go out there now and do all the sailing things but they are quite expensive so am easing myself in and tomorrow, weather permitting(!), I am spending the day dolphin and whale watching.Auckland is nothing like any of the other...