New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006

27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...

 

Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

Back Home

Great to see those that I managed to catch up with while at home. It really was a whirlwind visit. Those of you who I didn't manage to catch up with, I'm so sorry but I didn't stop from the moment I landed until I got back on the plane. It was great...

 

New Zealand

9 April 07 QUEENSTOWN! Queenstown has everything an adrenaline junky could want. There is everything going on here - skydiving, bungy jumping, jet boats, paragliding, parascending, and more. We didn't do any of that today, but it's been fun! W...

 

The Pacific, NZ and a tiny bit of Oz

Dunedin is a nice but fairly quiet town. We found the world's steepest street - Badwin st and drove to the top and held our breath on the steep descent! Then we drove out to the Otago peninsula and visited Larnach Castle - New Zealand's only castle. ...

 

Home to NZ again

The house post a quick paint job, a few new lights and some new curtains...

 

New Zealand 2006

Early morning flight out of Tullamarine!We were up at 0-dark-00 and heding up the highway to Tulla. Who to talk to? Fortunately Louise and Fiona were reachable on the other side of the world, lou on a train to London and Fi on her way to the pictures, ...

 

New Zealand & Australia

Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...

 

New Zealand

Our first Christmas in the southern hemisphere for all of us except Rich so we were expecting a blazing sunny day and to head into the lake. Well it was warm and after dinner Rich and I raced into the lake but more fuelled by the alcohol than the blazi...

 

New Zealand 2006

I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday 5th October, Marthie told me that Bob would come and get me at the airport so I entered Auckland airport staring at all the bold older men, not sure what they must have thought, after about 5 minutes I cal...