Cabbie and Gill on tour

Buenos Airies June 08 First of all, massive thanks to Bro and Hollers for coming over to visit us. I had a superb 30th birthday , cheers. The two weeks with the above two didn't start as smoothly as we would have liked ! We had arranged a flightfrom Rio to Buenos Airies the night before Bro and Hollers'arrival, we landed around midnight, got into a hotel near the airport knowing that we wouldn't be getting much sleep. In bed around 2am , we were then back in the arrivals at 7.45am. We prepared our 'welcome signs'and then the long wait began.........8.45...........9..........9.30..........10........10.30 .....still no sign. I went to the Iberia desk to be informed that 'Mr McCabe and Mr Hollingsworth have missed their flight'. I won't put in print my initial thoughts ! ( Their flight ... read more

Iguauzu falls Brazil side May 08 To cut a long story short and because we are so far behind .............. Iguazu Falls were amazing , loads of water falling off cliffs ...........lovely. We will let the pictures speak for themselves. ( Fozzy , you can stick the 'not enough detail comments´ , come back when you´ve done 40 god damn blogs ! ) The only funny bit of the day was the Coati´s taking a liking to me or my crisps , Gill thought it was quite funny because i *hit myself ! ( I had seen the claws and teeth and when they´re running after you....... ) We only had time to see the falls from the Brasilian side, you can also do the Argentinian side but need another full day which we unfortunately didn´t ... read more

Mendoza May 08 We were really excited about arriving in Argentina as we had heard so many good things about it and we weren´t disappointed! On the first evening, we got into Mendoza about 11pm and decided to go straight out and sample some steak and Malbec. It was fantastic, I think the fact that the whole meal only cost us about 8 pounds so made it taste even better! We decided to have an early night and headed back to our superb hotel room ( less than a tenner for a suite, nice kicthen , sitting area, massive bathroom ....etc ) The next morning we had an explore , the city had some really nice little squares dotted about and parks. It was soon time to go and have another steak ! ( at first ... read more

May 08 - Rotorua and Auckland So , on the road again. This time at least not too far from Taupo to Rotorua. The weather was beginning to annoy us to say the least ! The drive from Taupo to Rotorua in decent weather would be superb, there is a lot of thermal activity along the way ( Can´t explain this without sounding like a geeky scientist ! ) . Its really strange to drive by some countryside and see many patches of steaming bushes along the way ! We were going to stop along the way at the Champayne pools, but with the weather as it was we just headed straight to Rotorua. We arrived and were really hungry, I spotted a pizza hut and demanded that we went in there ( just to avoid ... read more

Kaikora & Nelson April 08 We had been looking forward to visiting Kaikoura due to it´s whale and dolphin trips which we had heard so much about. We made our way over from the South Islands west coast the the east coast, the drive took longer than we had anticipated. Obviously the van wasn´t so keen on hills, most of them I was doing in 2nd gear with my foot to the floor, to cut a long story short we needed a break. We stopped off at Moira thermal pools. We stayed there for about two hours, having a dip in quite a few different pools of varying temperatures. It was a cold evening so sitting in warm pools looking up at a perfectly clear starry sky was beltin, I was just missing a beer. Even ... read more