Kate and Ryan

Back from the beautiful hot Fiji to freezing Melbourne!! We stayed again with our friends for our last 10 days in Australia & pretty much just ate yummy food the whole time!! Lucy had planned weekend in Melbourne for us when we got back & had sorted us out with a luxury 2 bed apartment over looking the city on the river - it was AWESOME!! We loved Melbourne, went to the casino -never seen or experienced anything like it in our lives, it was massive! Had cocktails on the river, a great dinner & general drinks & wandering round the city. The next day headed out to St Kilda for brekkie & coffee, it was a very chilled out place with lots of cafes/restaurants with seats outside to just sit & watch the world go ... read more

Our last week in New Zealand with “Dr Who” our little camper van...................... Well as a matter of fact we had a nice last week there, the weather wasn’t to bad, dry most days with the odd appearance of Mr Sunshine. We spent most of the week back in Taupo, it’s a lovely little lakeside town and had a great free campsite just on the outskirts, everyone is a winner. We spent some time wondering round the town, plenty of window shopping and also borrowed the use of Taupo library, did some reading, sorted out our music collection and watched some films from there DVD section. We decided to get into Auckland on the Saturday morning, found a great campsite just on the outskirts again (had to pay for this one) the plan was to spend ... read more