"When God made Heaven and Earth, he must have started with New Zealand" (Steve the Australian photographer - more about him later) So it's been a while since we last updated you all on our adventures and a lot has happened so there is lots to tell, but let us start where we left off last... Travelling further South the highlights have been: Taupo - having booked in advance, we did not realise we had chosen the remotest campsite possible so we began our stay wi...

So we arrive in one of the most isolated major landmasses, originally populated around 800 years ago by the Maori people who managed to scare off Abel Tasman. It was not until years later when James Cook on his way to Tahiti finally made a breakthrough and decided on his second visit that it might be worth the Birtish interest to colonise the land. There are no indiginous mammals in New Zealand and before the Brittish settlers came the Maori's main source of prot...

So we arrive in Fiji and are greeted with singing, flowers and welcome drinks - not too shabby! We spent the first night in Nadi at Smugglers Cove beach resort where we were greeted by John the local coconut con man where we ended up spending 20 FJD for two coconuts. The next stop was a quick one hour boat trip to Mana Island where the beaches were empty, the sand was white and the water crystal clear! The actual resort was quite basic and the mixed dorm room sl...

24 hours was not nearly enough time to explore such a buzzing city - but we gave it a good shot! In short the day consisted of: getting the MTR to a night market, lights and sound show at the harbour, star ferry ride across the harbour, taxi ride up to the Peak, dinner at the Peak and scary, backwards, practically vertical tram descent from Peak and long walk back to Caine road (aka. Anthony's flat). This was followed by a couple of hours sleep, another walk aro...