About us

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We are the Day family - J, Sam and our 3 children Freya, (13) Adam, (11) and Lissy (7) and 2 and a half years ago we set up this blog following the trip of our lifetimes. 6 weeks, no work, no school, no rat race, just us, on our crazy Big "Day" Trip! Well, needless to say we got the travelling bug back (suppressed while the kids were little!) and now we are off again soon on our next adventure to New Zealand's beautiful South Island (plus Wellington!)

Where we have been

Windy Welly

by sam - 21st April 2017

Our final city of this holiday was Wellington, more famous for being windy than for being the capital of NZ. Its at the bottom of the North Island, we came ...

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Wine and Sandflies

by sam - 20th April 2017

There is a shipwreck on the beach where we are staying in Motueka that is amazing! Its called the Janie Sneddon, built in Scotland in 1901 and was beached in ...

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