Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We would just like to wish all our family and friends a very happy Christmas and new year and here's to a great 2010!

Thanks for all your Christmas messages that we have received. We hope that all the sunshine that we have received over the last month or so will bring some welcome relief to the cold and wet conditions that we see the UK has been experiencing!

We will celebrate the New Year much like we did Christmas day, on a beach in New Zealand, plus with the added honour of being one of the first countries to see in the new year.

Festive wishes,

Doddy and Bowks

xxxxx

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Comments

[Germaine Greer]

Emancipation
Dear Ms Bowks and Mr Dodds I have enjoyed reading your blog entries and am pleased to see that you have arrived safely in New Zealand. I do have to express a slight disappointment in you Ms Bowks in that I have been viewing you as a thoroughly modern woman who is setting a shining example to less emancipated females who may lack the confidence to travel independently. It was therefore with some disappointment that I noticed in your 'trying a tandem' photograph in Mendoza,Argentina that you reverted to the stereotypical female and allowed Mr Dodds to commandeer the front saddle position of the tandem. I am sure this was a minor aberration and will be rectified during your future travels. Best wishes as you journey through the rest of New Zealand and Australia. Germaine