OK, we have loads to write up at this point, so it might take a couple of sessions to get it done, but we'll do as much as we can before we get booted out of this library at closing time. Thursday 29th May - Charlotte's Birthday Thursday morning saw us waking pretty early, I had quite a bit planned and Charlotte was just generally excited. As she was showering, I threw my clothes on and set off down to the supermarket for some supplies for the day. I was dressed for the heat but was greeted by a miserable rainy [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 24th May to Wednesday 28th May - Brisbane The flight over didn't take that long, the plane was a big double decked jumbo with full in seat entertainment and a pretty nice meal, so it went by at a nice pace. Getting through customs was decidedly more long winded. On the flight over we'd been given customs declaration cards, most of which was about the animal and plant products you may or may not have with you. We didn't want to risk a massive fine so we just declared that we had everything; we've been doing that much stuff we've [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 17th May - Napier, Wairoa Well as we finished our last entry, we start this one. Having made our way to Napier we thought it about time to get a blog entry done, as we were doing loads of stuff and it was pretty hard to keep track of. We arrived there before any of the internet cafes had opened so we had a walk around the town to pass the time. Napier seems to be a nice place, lovely buildings and very clean. We stopped for a picture by the church, the fountain outside of which was gushing bright [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, So we're still in New Zealand, having now covered almost 2800kms we're finally making progress! I'll start by first clearing something up. It seems that the last entry implied we were just sitting about getting smashed all the time... This isn't the case at all, the thing is that most nights we just sit in the van, play cards, read books and are asleep before 9 as it's dark and there's not much to do. The only time we have anything interesting to report of an evening is when we've actually gone out and done something, which when it's [View Full Entry]

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Over to NZ Monday becomes Tuesday Our flight from the Cook islands was at 7am, so we had to be up pretty early. Luckily we'd managed to get hold of the airport transfer company the night before after days of trying and had at last arranged a pick up for 5am. We were packed and sat outside at 5am, providing a mosquito buffet for quite a while and there was no sign of our pick up. We thought that as we'd booked it late on a Sunday afternoon that they may have messed up the booking, but just after we went [View Full Entry]

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Cook Islands - Part 2 So it's been a while since our last entry. It's only really been a few days but theres been so much going on it feels like forever! After we'd finished typing the entry on Thursday morning, Charlotte threw in the towel and went back to bed at about 8.30am, so I headed off down to the beach to take some pictures. It was a nice morning and the sea was getting much bigger, slamming some really big waves out on the reef. I got bored pretty soon though and went inside and read the Lonely Planet [View Full Entry]

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Hey, This is the first entry so it might get pretty long but here goes... It's 6am and I've been up a bit... still not quite kicked the jet lag i think Also I apologize for any crap spelling, this keyboard sucks and I'm sat in the dark trying not to wake anyone. Flights After a pretty boring trek to Heathrow and several McCrappy meals, we were making our way through the vast city sized airport that is Hathrow. Check in was amazingly efficicient, there's these Virgin atlantic computer box contraptions into which you just poke your passport. Seconds later yor [View Full Entry]

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