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 ...
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 ...
Two days near Nelson in the Abel Tasman National Park were lovely. Most of the National park is not accessible by road so there are water taxis and other ...
Adam loves Kiwis, the birds, not the fruit...he hates the fruit, except for his teddy Kiwi Fruit, Kevin, he bought a couple of years ago in the North Island. ...
No decent wifi and technical issues with the blog site providers (that cant be sorted on live chat with the the patchy wifi!) mean we are a bit behind and ...
**LOTS OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE OUR WEBSITE HOSTING THAT THEY CANT SEEM TO FIX, so we cant use any apostrophes or inverted commas ...
Dull dreary morning in Wanaka early morning, but it turned better as the day went on, as usual here... 4 seasons in each day!
We had a lazy ...
Moving on from Queenstown today to Wanaka. It's a smaller lakeside town, known locally as the less adventurous sister. It's only about 75km away over the top ...
When in Queenstown it would seem rude not to join in some of the awesome activities available...well at least that's what these adrenaline junkie children of ...
We got to go on a luge again! We did this is Rotarua in the North Island when we came over 2 1/2 years ago, and all loved it, so we were really excited to ...
We're staying in Te Anau, the last town on the only road into Milford Sound, it's not actually that far distance wise between the two, but the road is windy ...
The kids have loved this campsite, all the old bikes trikes and balls around with the sea views and plenty of space to run round, it's not the fanciest of ...
Half an hour back over to Lake Tekapo, we found the Tekapo Hot Springs, glacial water, heated and overlooking the beautiful lake... It was still drizzling so ...
Beautiful early morning sunrise coffee on the deck of our house, then after driving the length of Lake Pukaki we arrived at Mount Cook Village to tramp (NZ ...
Longest drive of the trip today. It took about 5 1/2 hrs in total plus a couple of stops. The SH1 south of Kaikoura re-opened at 7am, which was going to be a ...
Early start this morning, but that was no problem, as having gone to bed at 8pm we were all up by 6am. The drive to Kaikoura was going to take 2 hours, but ...
We landed in Christchurch at 9.30am after a beautiful sunrise and views of the snow-capped Southern Alps crowning through the cloud- stunning welcome to the ...
As requested we are keeping a journal of our trip again. If you don't want to get automatic notifications sent to you this time then feel free to unsubscribe- ...
So, one last blog from me, mainly to say Thankyou for taking the time to read our website posts and either comment on them, or message us privately to chat ...
Last night we flew from Honolulu to Los Angeles. We only had a 6hr flight so had no idea what the kids would be like on arrival, and had a back up list of ...
We were supposed to have one last big trip in Hawaii, whale watching in the Pacific Ocean with a bit of dolphin swimming afterwards. It was something we were ...
We have flown 45 minutes back to the island of Oahu for our last few days of the trip, to our last accomodation, a cottage in Ewa Beach, just outside ...
Yesterday was awesome! We booked a helicopter tour to fly over the active volcano on the Big Island, pretty much the only reason we came the extra little ...
We had a great 48 hours of chilling at Plantation Island...loads of swimming, watersports and sunbathing, until the last evening when J had stomach cramps, ...
We had breakfast early at Beach Cocomo,and then said our "motheys" (goodbyes) and headed to the marina at Denarau to get the boat to Malolo Leilei, a small ...
Merry Christmas to all our lovely friends and family from sunny Fiji!!
We have had an absolutely glorious day on the beach; it's not been ...
Yesterday we flew from Auckland to Fiji where we will spend christmas :-)
Fiji is made up of 333 islands, we are staying on the Coral coast of ...
So yesterday we bade farewell to our Betsy, (the campervan if you haven't read previous blogs!) it was quite emotional... Although, between a bugger up with ...
Today we took the scenic route from the South of Lake Taupo, where we were staying at Tokaanu, to Waitomo where we are staying now. This was primarily to get ...
Might have guessed we had no useful wifi where we've been staying, and are now currently "freedom" camping in a glorified lay by right on the edge on Great ...
The plan for an early start on the Waihi beach to get the best shells after the tide went out, did not quite go to plan, we did go there early...just on ...
So today we flew from Brisbane to Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. We are now 13 hours ahead of UK time.
We were quite sad to say bye ...
About 400km from the outback station is our next pit stop, Hervey Bay. We are staying 2 nights in a place called Sanctuary Lakes and have a nice spacious ...
We spent yesterday, last night and today until lunchtime in an outback cattle ranch in the Kroombit National Park. The farm we stayed at is 10,000 acres of ...
We've been staying in Airlie beach for the two last nights, in a petite cabin with non-working wifi, (why is wifi that doesn't work so much more annoying than ...
What a lovely chilled day. We had a bit of lie in and had our free pancakes for breakfast at our hostel in Cairns then got packed up and left. We are ...
Early start this morning to catch our 9am flight to Cairns, and drop back an hour in time this time. All very smooth and easy, and loved our Tiger aeroplane! ...
The Blue Mountains is a huge mountain range outside of Sydney. We got the train today from Sydney, 100km to Katoomba to visit the Three Sisters and the ...
We landed in Sydney at 7.50 this morning. We have jumped forward a further 4 hrs, so are now 11hrs ahead of GMT, but amazingly the kids still don't seem to ...
Yesterday was out last day in Thailand. We decided to sightsee Bangkok, again with as much local transport as possible, partly for our own ease of movement on ...
The Mae klong market, also known as the Risky Market, the folding umbrella market and the Train market, has been on my bucket list for a long time. It's not ...
Moving on day today :-/ Took a Tuk-Tuk from our guesthouse, before breakfast to avoid the crowds and unforgiving sun, up to the official Bridge over the River ...
Today we went to Elephant world, which despite the slightly naff name, was the most spectacular place! The foundation was set up as a home for retired, ...
Busy morning with only time for toast and luke warm river water, sorry, I mean coffee, for breakfast. Picked up at 8am for a trip up to Erawan national park ...
Wow, that was a long day but well worth it already! It seems like a heck of a lot longer ago than 28 hours that we left London. Getting to the airport, getting ...
I've been asked a lot of times this week if we have packed yet....um, no! I have done trial pack for both me and the girls and there are lots of little piles ...
It's just under 2 weeks til we set off, I can't actually believe it's going to really happen! J and I have talked about visiting/moving to Australia since we ...