Well, if I'm not just sitting at the edge of my seat, typing as fast as I can 'cos I'm so excited to have the ole blog up and running again, at long last - welcome back folks! So with the hairy scary home countdown at the two month mark we landed in Christchurch, the big town of New Zealand's South Island three days ago. And wow, what a view - flying over the stunning snow capped peaks before we landed in Christchurch was an absolutely magnificent 'Kia Ora' to this land, (your first taste of Maori, the indigenous peoples' language meaning 'welcome'.) Getting straight down to business we tramped (kiwi for hike) straight across the road from the airport to the Antarctic Centre where I had the pleasure of telling Helen, "this is nothing, it
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