Hi All, We woke up this morning freezing! The temperature has definitely dropped to single degrees and it makes it worse when you go from a powered site with heat blasting in all night to nothing. We had planned to have a walk around Taupo Centre today; they have shops and loads of restaurants, all on the edge of the huge Lake. Neil nearly won $10,000 dollars on a golf hole in one on the beachfront, he hit the flag but it didn’t stay on so he was so close!!! (That money would have been nice) We had also planned to see what the weather was like to decide whether or not to do that sky dive that got cancelled the other day. By 11am, the weather was perfect: sunny with a little cloud. We decided ... read more

Hello Friends, countrymen and Bloggers, We woke up cold again, we can’t believe the temperatre drop between the south and north islands. We had a nice breakfast of bacon sandwiches and headed off to the airport. We had booked up a sky dive today and were both really excited and nervous about it. We had also booked up to get our van fixed after so we had a busy day. We got to the airfield and checked in, sorted out what package we wanted and were all ready and excited, we got into our suits, harnessed up and were all ready. We boarded the little prop plane and within 30min were up to 15,000ft, this is where it went wrong!!! The wind got up and was over the maximum speed so had to come back down ... read more

Hello People, We woke up at Watsons Way Campsite and backpackers. I had a horrible headache! We showered, had bacon sandwiches for breakfast, and then played (tried too) tennis. Not for long as I really did feel yuck from yesterdays wine antics! We updated our phones before heading to the ferry terminal at around 9am. However I received an email from the Picton ferry terminal saying that our ferry had been cancelled due to bad weather at sea, and that we would now have a new departure time of 2pm. It’s a great set up as it meant we wouldn’t be hanging around waiting at the terminal. So we left the campsite about 10.30am. We drove to Pak n Save before the terminal for a few feel better/healthier luxuries-avocado, fruit smoothie, jerky and grapes. We arrived ... read more

Hello People, We arrived in Kaikoura, we wanted to do a whale site seeing tour and a Maori Culture experience but they were about £70 each per person so we decided against it in this place. The whales would have been good but we have seen them out at sea from the ship; and we can always do the Maori culture up north, which will hopefully be cheaper. We walked around the town and had fish and chips for lunch. About 1pm we drove up the coast to Ohua peninsular to see so many seals laid out all up the coast for miles, the pictures are good. We headed on further north until we reached Blenheim at about 1430, we parked up in Countdown supermarket and went over to library to get Wi-Fi and charge the ... read more

Hello People, We woke up nice and early and found the weather was warm as there was no condensation in the van for once!! We headed inland today to drive to Mount John and Lake Taipo. We got amazing pictures on the way up, however once up there the weather changed so quickly and fog covered us within minutes. We stayed at the top for a while to have some lunch and read (hoping for the weather to go as quick as it came in…it didn’t!!). We drove to local hot pools which are mentioned in lonely planet books, however they were not natural and looked more like a cheap outside swimming pool so decided not to do them also the were $22 each. We decided to get as close to Christchurch so we headed to ... read more