Hello ladies and gents! You've got me for this entry, and Jason's gonna give you the low down on our trip to the South Island. This one, as you can guess from the title, deals with our "day off" in Wellington. We were treating ourselves to a lie in of eight am (I know it sounds odd, but honestly, this is a lie in!). One of the highlights this morning was that on our fourth box of Nestle cereal we got the fourth character of our Batman collection (yes, we picked our cereal based on what the toys you could get [View Full Entry]

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Heya everyone, I know, two blog entries waiting for you on waking up! But don't get to excited, as you can see, today's entry isn't gonna be a barrel of laughs. After the Thermal Village, we both went to bed early-ish to get up at five to hopefully get a full day's hiking up at Mount Ngauruhoe, which was used by Peter Jackson as Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings. We're both pretty psyched about this, me for the hike and Jason for the location. Plus the walk back takes us through the areas they filmed Mordor... brilliant. But the [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone it is Jason writing the blog on this occasion although Elliott is right beside me checking as we go that i don't miss anything important that may have happened. My memory is quite terrible so here goes. The night was a relatively quiet one except for the text that i recieved from Deena that included a photo of her stuck working in the heatwave (Boohoo it was like 1 degree where i was, i was sat in a sleeping bag with it wrapped round my head to try and keep warm) but the text didn't wake me up, it [View Full Entry]

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Elliott:Yep, as you can see from the title, me and Jason did something wonderful/amazing/stupid yesterday after he had finished his blog entry... Before I forget: If you haven't already, subscribe to the blog! There's a link on the main page (www.mytb.org/jason-and-elliott) which just asks for your e-mail address. Whenever we write a new entry, it'll e-mail to let you know. We're moving out of Rotorua tomorrow, so we dunno how long it'll be till the next update, but we don't want you missing out! Right, back to the story... Yesterday started pretty much like most mornings sin [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone it's Jason this time, sorry i have been a bit lazy when it comes to blogging, have been leaving it up to Elliott as to be honest his memory is better than mine and i have a habit of missing huge chunks of events out. But i am gonna do this one just for you folks back home :-) I am hopefully going to add some videos we have done on the camera. Not to sure which ones yet, some may be relative to this particular blog some will link into previous ones, i am sure you can figure [View Full Entry]

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Hello Ladies and Gents! You're stuck with me again for today's blog, as Jason (on the PC next to me) has uploaded Skype and is talking to Emma, Rozenn and Deena in real time. So muggins here is stuck listening to one side of the conversation. Ah well, I get all you lovely people. It's been a while since our last update, and that's partly due to the last place we stayed at had no internet, and we've been having some very early mornings. So we did we leave you all? Oh yeah, we had arrived at The Park by ninety [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! As you can see we've moved on since this morning, having travelled north to Ninety Mile Beach, which is fan-damn-tastic. Took about five hours to get here, so Jason's pretty bushed (it's 10.12pm here, and he's asleep on the seat beside me). I'll take him back to the Merc inna minute. We're at a new motor camp, "The Park", one of the more up scale ones this time. It's computer has a CD drive and USB port, so this entry has all the pics for the last few days for you all to enjoy. Our first day of driving [View Full Entry]

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Good Morning everyone! I apologise that this entry is going to be shorter then the last few, but we are running out of money for the computers, as we've not got that many coins at the moment. Also, no pictures in this entry, as we can't get access to the computer tower, it's all locked up. Hopefully we can edit this entry later tonight. As you can see from the location we've now left Auckland, and are now in Orewa, about an hour north of the city. Yesterday was the day we picked up the motorhome, which we set about doing [View Full Entry]

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Well its blog time again, the last blog ended when we woke up at midnight and started planning our first proper day in New Zealand, i am going to continue now with how those plans went, so here goes. When i had woken up it had turned out that Elliott had been up during the night with some stomach problems, fortunately i had slept through it all. I also slept through the whistling noise the window had been making due to some pretty crappy seals on the frames, but its ok Elliott had taken care of that too, with some sort [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Well, as you can see by me writing this, we've made it across to the other side of the world alive and whole. It's Monday 21st of July, 9:10am for us at the moment, but it's 9.42pm Sunday 20th for you guys :) Right, where did Jason end the last entry? Ah right. After making our first entry we had some cheeseburgers with Graham and then re-packed our bags and went through the list of stuff to take for a third\fourth time. Making sure we had everything, we spend the rest of the afternoon just relaxing before heading off [View Full Entry]

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