So I've been back over a week in Otane and we have had the fire going everyday!!! Focusing on work and getting busy again so thats good people are still travelling.   The biggest thing to happen in New Zealand in the last week is the elections, thank goodness we only came back two weeks before because I was sick of hearing about it. Time for a change yes but which monkey is the best mmmmm well I don't really have any confidence. Well our government d...

Singapore Airlines once again AMAZING service is all I can say, the staff were exceptional!! Smiling and constantly coming around with drinks, collecting rubbish, there wasn't 1/2 that went by that they were offering you something, the opposite of Swiss Air from the previous evening. The flight was chocka too - Good on Rod for taking the middle seat, I have to have an aisle otherwise it does my head in and claustrophobia sets in. My mind wanders back to the...

So I've landed back in Aotearoa "land of the long white cloud" except today I'll call it land of the p...... down!!!!  Pascal has decided to write this blog to give our friends and friends of friends in Europe an insight into "The Real New Zealand." Yeah there's lots of crazy adventure junky activities that attract people from all round the world to come and it is a beautiful country but tourist don't see the real life unless they come and help...

Well, 50 minutes to Geneve and then a 2.5 hour wait, then the biggy, 12 hours to Singapore a night flight - toughy when you don't sleep. Rod ate dinner sat back and just went to sleep for nearly 8 hours sitting upright!! - how does he do that, I think its a male thing that they can sleep sitting up. I wriggled, got up walked around, sat down, had water, watched a movie looked at all the people sleeping, put ear plugs in, put the blanket over my head, feet u...

I said goodbye to my beloved Specialised 29'er mountain bike and was sorry to be leaving it behind as I have loved riding this woman's specific bike. We road into the village of Frangy this morning and I fell off - thankfully nothing broken before getting on the flight, not having a great start as I banged my head 3 times when packing as well!!! I've been thinking maybe I can find a way of getting my bike to New Zealand shores if we don't return...