A south island spectacular April 14th 2007 Christchurch...where am I??
Christchurch, our first stop as we flew into New Zealand, is around 11,000 miles from the UK and considering that the world is about 24,000 miles around its middle we really couldn't have been much further from 'home' - so to be greeted by 5 members of my family as we arrived from Sydney - having spent exactly (to the day) 7 months on the road was a little strange a ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more
Remember folks 'Regret what you do, not what you don't' and with that thought we welcome you to our round the world travel blog.
As our journey is now over we hope that some of our stories and adventures may help or inspire anybody else who is lucky enough to be currently in any of the locations we visited or planning to travel in the near future.
Do we regret our trip ? .......... absolutely not it was the best year of both our lives and even though we are now back home and things have already started to fall back into exactly the same places they were before we left...... we will alway... full info