Month: December 2005

  • It’s new years eve

    Ay up you lot. Happy new year in advance. We’ve moved on to Napier now. Many thanks to Ros and Tony for looking after us so well. Ros sent us off with some of her wonderful banana and chocolate muffins, happy days! Napier is a cool place, certainly our favourite town in New Zealand so…

  • Christmas in the sun

    Happy Christmas everyone! We are currently staying at my Aunt Ros and Uncle Tony’s house hear Taupo which is where we spent a slightly odd-feeling Christmas in the sun. Christmas is strange over here, there aren’t the usual triggers that we get at home – decorations everywhere, Christmas shopping, going home to see family and…

  • Egg Fart City

    Yes it’s me again! John is busy uploading more photos. Plenty more pictures of birds ;). I need a camera cable before I can do any of mine so you will have to continue waiting in suspense. Anyway. Rotorua (city of rotten egg aromas) is our current location. It has sulphur rich thermal vents which…

  • My first post for a while…

    It’s been a while since I last posted – most of my internet time has been spent sorting other things out so not had a chance to get on here as much as I would have liked. Anyway the last week or so has featured two of the highlights of our trip so far –…

  • Up to 18th Dec.

    Thanks for all the comments you lot. Looks like we’ll have to turn around and head back up North for more Gannet action! We’ve had a bit of a slower pace of life this last week. This internet connection is certainly slow so there will be no more photos for the time being. You will…

  • An update at last

    Hello all! Nice to see you all debating amongst yourselves. The Silver bullet has not (yet!) broken down although John has taken to covering the curtains in velcro. At least they close properly now! The downside is that the stuff keeps getting stuck in my hair. We’re currently in Kaitaia and have just spent three…

  • We have wheels!

    We’ve bought a camper van! It was surprisingly easy and, not wanting to tempt fate, but I reckon we’ve got a good un. It’s a toyota ‘town ace’, is pretty simple with just a mattress in the back, but has a stereo and some very funky skylights too. It has been monikered ‘The Silver Bullet’,…

  • We made it to Auckland!

    Hello all! We’ve finally left the UK! The 30 hour flight was a bit of a killer, was sure my knees would explode. We did manage to catch the most excellent new Wallace and Gromit movie which I would recommend you all to see. It has some very clever touches and had about half the…