Pinch and a punch, it’s the first of the month!!!!Oh my God, I cannot believe that it is the first of December! Where has the year gone?? (I must be getting old now, if I am starting to ask questions like that!!)Allegedly, it was the first day of Summer here today, (which is still messing with my mind, seeing as though Crimbo is just 24 days away!!!) And, when we set off walking to the Town Centre in the morning, it was gray, and miserable, and rainy ...

We arrived in Christchurch yesterday, after the final “car journey” on our road trip, from Kaikoura, and we are now in jail. Which may sound a little confusing, but we are actually staying in a place called “Jailhouse Accommodation” which is actually a refurbished, decommissioned Prison that closed in the year 2000. Which is a kinda’ cool and interesting place to lay our hats for a while! I must admit, the first thing that I thou...

Well, despite my best efforts, I didn’t sleep a single wink last night. Nothing. Zip. Nada. (Which was not good, as I was supposed to be well rested for the early start that we had to get up and go on our Dolphin Swim!!) (which I was SO excited about!!!) But, as it was a special day, I managed to scrape myself up out of bed, and get myself ready at 7am when the alarm clock sounded, before driving off to the Encounters Centre at 8am sharp. Luckily, we h...

 I haven’t really got that much to say about today, other than that we have been own to Kaikoura Airport today (which was actually more like a clubhouse!) to witness Sharon Barnes do yet anothet crazy thing….pilot a plane.But, it wasn’t any old plane flying…it was aereobatic plane flying!!Honestly, I can’t really tell you that much about it, unfortunately, as Paul and I had to observe from terra firma, as it is illegal to take...

After the excitement of Arthurs Pass, we decided to leave early to get to Kaikoura, which is where we are now. But, before we did leave, I found out why Arthurs Pass is named so, (after Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson, the first president of the New Zealand YHA, although I still don’t know how the pass naming came about. And I thought my name was bad…) And even though I was hoping not to have to say goodbye to scary Deborah, I did anyway, because it would...