Finally - on holiday again, if only for a short time! Sam and I haven't been overseas in so long so we really looked forward to our trip to NZ (and our only holiday for the year). We set off for Christchurch all excited about finally getting away, and were also going on hols with good friends of ours, Jae and Jen. When we landed in Christchurch late in the afternoon we had to pick up our little Rav 4 hire car and head south for the transient little town of Wanaka. We were told by about 4 different people that [View Full Entry]

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Well, we have sent you all our blogs from all of our travels and I thought we may as well do one to update all the friends and fam now that we are pretty well settled into life back in Oz. After seeing so many beautiful places on earth you kind of forget or never get around to taking pictures of your own home. We wanted to share some with you. It hasn't been the easiest of roads coming home but we have done well to tackle all the obstacles come our way so far and I think we've done the [View Full Entry]

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After four years and eight months of travelling around the globe I was more than ready to touchdown on Aussie soil, and bringing Sam home as my live souvenier was just the icing on the cake! We decided to fly into the west side and catch up with a good pal from London, Craigo. Craigo being the stellar host that he is, put us up for a few days in his pad in Victoria Park just outside the city and showed us around the traps. Perth being the sunniest capital in Oz boasting an average of eight hours of sunshine per [View Full Entry]

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We decided to go to Mauritius to visit a mate of ours from London, but due to a bit of a cock up with telephone numbers and dates, unfortunately he wasn't even on the island when we arrived! Determined to make the best of a bad job, and not knowing much about Mauritius, we scoured the web in search of information about places to stay and things to do here. We finally settled on a little place towards the North of the island called Pereybere, and landed a pretty nice unit complete with all mod-cons, sea-views and a pet kitten?! At [View Full Entry]

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Maputo Shithole. Went there because we had to. Got out as quickly as possible. Tofo Our main reason for making this long and painful journey here (and it was painful - 4 hours in a cramped transit van from Swaziland to Maputo, then another 9 hours in an even worse van with dodgy but very loud reggae music playing, while sitting next to people that can't have washed for a month) was to catch up with one of my best mates from London, Willsy, and to see the little stretch of paradise he calls home. From the minute we unfolded out [View Full Entry]

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Richards Bay/Hluhluwe & Umfolozi Game Park After a horrifc bus journey (that took 5 hours more than it should have) we arrived at Durban at 1.30am and were greeted with hugs and smiles by our London flatmate Stevo and his better half Debs. Lucky for us, they took us under their wing for a week which we spent at their home in Richards Bay about 150kms North of Durban on the coast, right in the heart of Zululand. With no sleep had and lots of catching up to do, Debs packed a picnic and beers and Stevo, armed with the biggest [View Full Entry]

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Oudtshoorn Not exactly on the sunny coast, but 97km inland from Mossel Bay, Oudtshoorn used to be home to rich feather barons until the turn of the century. Nestled in the dry region of the Little Karoo, it is the home of wildlife ranches, winerys and the Cango Caves. As exciting as the caves would have been to visit, we had already visited some pretty extraordinary caves in the Greek Islands so we headed straight to the Cango Ostrich Farm to learn more about the world's largest bird native only to Africa. The ostrich is a pretty big deal over here, [View Full Entry]

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Cape Town Welcome to Africa people! We flew into Cape Town from Buenos Aires and suddenly realised how much more expensive it is over here. We took a taxi into the centre of the city to our backpackers on Long St and the Cabbie did warn us on the way not to walk the side streets at night and to stay in areas that are well lit. Apparently the crime rate is a little higher over here!!! Staying in Long St. meant that we were right in the middle of everything which was great because we didn't need to go far [View Full Entry]

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Salta Salta was our first port of call in the lovely country of Argentina. It was a right mission to get to (transition day is never much fun) the border crossing from Villazon in Bolivia to La Quiaca took forever, causing us to miss our seven and a half bus ride to Salta, though lucky for us we were able to board the next one leaving that afternoon. Once over the border from Bolivia, you instanly notice the decreasing amount of poverty that surrounds you - it's almost hard to believe you're on the same continent and that these two bordering [View Full Entry]

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Salar De Uyuni We returned to the ordinary capital city of La Paz after our trek through the Amazon Basin on the same tiny plane we flew up there on. After both experiencing the joys of food poisoning, we both pretty much became vegos to avoid at all costs of going through it all again!! From La Paz we jumped on an overnight bus bound for Uyuni, it took ten hours to get there and the bus itself was decked out nice and comfy, and we even got fed though we had to agree it was the worse ride of our [View Full Entry]

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