Well yep we are back to the real world and living in the city. Looking after the cows was good fun but wasnt too keen on being miles away from anywhere. WE are living right on the High Street in Auckland, in a nice apartment block that again has a pool, gym and sauna which i have been using. We are staying with Tommy and Charlotte who we travelled around Borneo with all those months ago (may 06) so its great catching up. We went and saw All Blacks Vs France o...

Hi Guys, well yep we are almost back where we started in NZ. We have finished our NZ travels and are returning to work so we can afford our ticket home (not that that is going to be until next year). We havedriven round the Cormandel and did a couple of walks but again not too much to report. We are now Cow and house sitting in Patetonga which is about an hour from auckland, its a really nice farm with 240 dairy cows which are much smaler the the dairy herds in ...

Wellington is now in the past and we've moved on again as we always do.  We are in the Taranaki region which is on the west side of the north island staying in a town called Stratford.  Taranaki is built around Mount Taranki, a dormant volcanoe reaching over 2500m in height.  It really is an impressive sight when it's not shrouded in cloud!!  We were lucky enough to meet Mike McDonalds brother, Pete, down in Southland and we are actually staying with ...

Well, here we are back on the North Island. Once again the infamous ferry crossing across Cook Strait was flat calm so it looks like we've missed out on the really rough one.  The South Island has been full of highlights and luckily we've made some good friends who have given us addresses of people to visit up on the North Island.  We are staying with Georgie's son and his family about 30 mins walk from Welly city centre.  There is plenty to do in ...

Hi, we have spent a lovely week chilling out in Nelson, we stayed with Mike and Kathy (who own Moonlight Farms down in Drummond) in their holiday home which had amazing views, infact the photot on this postcard was taken from the balcony...see amazing ! We went out on a Vinyard tour and got a wee bit tipsy whichwas good fun we must have tried about 40 different winesand i can honestlysay only 3 or 4 didnt get drunkas they were pretty bad !  At the end of...