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Kia Ora (hello in Maori) Well the weather has finally improved thankfully and it is now nice and sunny reaching the mid-twenties. It is amazing how a little bit of sunshine can really improve a place. But I guess that´s a bit hard to imagine when you are sat back home in old Blighty freezing to death. On Monday we decided to drive back to Rotorua, which is where we first started out and the place we liked the best, well apart from the faint whiff of sulphur every now and again. Plus the weather forecast was the best for here and they have the best campsites. We went to Kiwi World as we felt that you couldn´t come all the way to New Zealand without seeing one and the chances of seeing one in the ... read more

Hi all (Those that are reading this anyway) Well we arrived in Perth in the early hours of Monday (13th Nov) and managed to find a hostel in the city centre. As it was about 2am and we were very tired we went into the first one we found which had a bed and booked in for 3 nights. So far we had been lucky with the hostels that we had stayed in but our room in this one was like we had both been sent to prison and put in solitary confinement (I know that doesn't quite work with two of us in the same room, but that's what it was like!) The room had no windows and one door, which would only allow one person to enter, then had to be shut and re-opened ... read more

G'danga, Well we had a good last week in Queensland although it keeps getting hotter and hotter and very humid so makes you very sluggish. Arrived in Cairns last Friday and spent a couple of days here just looking around and then on the Sunday we booked a day trip to a town called Karundra. It's a small little town about 15 minutes north of Cairns and is surrounded by the rainforest. We arrived at Cairns railway station where you board the Scenic Railway which takes about 1 hour to climb up to Karundra and on the way you pass through the rainforest and waterfalls. Once in Karundra we had the day to wander around and I managed to find Australias Venomous Zoo! Becks loved this as spiders and creepy crawlies are amongst her favourite things ... read more

Hi all (if anyone is still reading this) Apologies for this blog being a bit delayed however not as easy when travelling around to get to an internet place that often and far too busy, anyway here now. Well the last couple of days in Sydney were spent travelling around the outskirts to visit a couple of beaches and a few more museums. We even went to the Maritime Museum which dad would have loved! Wednesday was the big day where we picked the camper van up. It's great, it comes with a neat little kitchen area with stove, grill, fridge and sink and then a table inside which turns into a bed plus a further bed in the roof bit and there is also a fold down table for outside with a couple of camping ... read more