Bula! :-) Arriving in Fiji on the Tuesday evening, we were greeted by the driver that the hotel had arranged for us. The journey would take an hour and a half with nothing more than a few villages between Nadi and Sigatoka where we would be staying. Having been to Ko Samui and Phuket we expected it to be similar but it was quite different. There was very little to be seen in the way of tourist shops, cafes and fast food places. It seems that although there are signs of development for hotels and houses along the road, the Fijians [View Full Entry]

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Hello all We arrived in Rotorua on Monday by plane from Wellington Airport. The plane we were on had a maximum capacity of 50 seats, it was tiny so we felt every bump! Rotorua is one of the world’s most concentrated geothermal areas, with geysers, areas of bubbling mud and old volcanoes. However due to this it is very smelly, due to the Hydrogen Sulphide rising up from the area’s thin crust! The smell is like rotten eggs, but it is weird you can smell it really bad at first but then get used to it! It means that I can [View Full Entry]

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You have all been very patient! Lots of Love Anne and Russell xx [View Full Entry]

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Well we hit the road early on Thursday for our two day road trip from Queenstown to Picton via the west coast. We had already planned our half way point to be Hokitika and covered 550 km to get there. First of all we stopped into Wanaka to collect our wedding photos only to find that they had already been sent on to the wedding planner in Nelson. We carried on and stopped at Makarora for our packed lunch and then on to Franz Josef Glacier where we did 3 of the walks to get views of the Glacier. One of [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour We arrived by plane in Queenstown (mid west coast of the south island) on Monday, after flying from Christchurch. The plane journey itself only took 50 minutes. Queenstown Airport is surrounded by mountains on pretty much all sides so it looked well cool coming in on the plane, like landing in the middle of the Alps! We booked an apartment for 3 nights in Queenstown when we were in Oz, it was pretty cheap. When we arrived it was absolutely beautiful, like a modern flat with all the mod cons and it even has a washing machine and tumble dryer [View Full Entry]

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This has been the longest time between blogs but we have a good excuse - the wedding! On behalf of my husband and I......... We were so excited to pick the family Dominick up from the airport last Tues, Arran is getting so big, not to mention cute, cute cute. We spent the night in Christchurch and had take away and beers in our room - we had friends again - yeah. Hit the road early on Wed morning for Mount Cook after the wedding cake and flowers were delivered. Had the cake on my knee the whole trip but it [View Full Entry]

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Hey All, We had booked a whale watching trip at Kaikoura so Sunday morning we were up early to pick up the rental car. Kaikoura is about 150km north of Christchurch. Stopped for breakfast before we really hit the road though, Russ was siked about getting a full english. The driving is just like in the UK although Russ did all the driving and as usual I acted as navigator. The drive there took us around 2.5 hours but we were there in plenty of time before the boat left so had a wander on the beach. I can't believe the [View Full Entry]

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Ello All We arrived in Christchurch at around 4 on Friday. The temperature difference was noted straight away, it is freezing!! Nice and sunny but much colder than Australia, we have had to ditch the shorts and go for jeans and hoodies, booh!! The air feels crisp and fresh which is lovely! We got a bus from the airport to the city centre. Christchurch itself is very very British looking. It is lovely, very nice, and safe and everyone is chillaxed to the max. Not going to go into Christchurch too much as we are going to go out and get [View Full Entry]

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G’day Cobbers We arrived in Sydney last Friday afternoon. The first 2 days the weather was glorious. Not as hot as Brisbane but still nice, we went to the usual sights - Opera House, Harbour Bridge and got some ace photos. Took a walk over the bridge and climbed one of the towers - this was prep to see if Anne's vertigo could withstand a bridge climb. Sadly she wasn't sure it would and after that the weather took a turn for the worse anyway! On Saturday night we went out for a meal and a few drinks local to our [View Full Entry]

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Hello On Saturday we had a bit of a relax and took a walk to Queensland Museum where they have awesome Muttaburrasauras bones. On Sunday morning we checked out of our hotel and picked up our hire car at 7:30am and made our way to Hervey Bay. On the way to Hervey Bay we stopped in at Australia Zoo (the late, great Steve Irwin’s Zoo). We got to see a whole array of lovely animals, the Wildlife Warrior Show at the Crocoseum and we also got to pet some more koalas, roos, wombats and some other barn animals (which included some [View Full Entry]

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