New country, New Zealand

Another week or two has passed and we thought it was about time we gave you all an update, unfortunately no pictures as we've used our limit on here but we'll try and e-mail some more to you all soon, we will wait till then for you to thank us for filling your inbox's.

Not a great deal to report from our last 10/12 days or so in Australia, we didnt do a lot, mainly lazing by the pool making the most of the warm weather when we could. We did go to Saturday in the park "festival" its in inverted commars as we're not sure it actually classes as a festival, it didnt really live up to expectations but thats probably more to do with us being spoilt at home with the best festival in the world (Glastonbury!)

Last tuesday we arrived at Auckland airport after a 4 and a half hour flight from Cairns, to be honest the weather wasn't as bad as we had expected, cool yes but not quite brass monkeys so touch wood that'll still be the case when we next update once we're on the South Island (the far colder of the two). Auckland was good, much like many other cities but we enjoyed our few days there, great food (the fish and chips in particular) yes we're really branching out and trying all the local delicassies! We went up the Sky tower there, the tallest building in the Southern hemisphere apparantly, got some great ariel pictures of the city.

We've taken out another 'wicked camper' this one's called 'Dickhead' but amazingly its far less offensive than goold old Charlie. Its a little smaller than Charlie but is a 4X4 which i'm sure we are going to make full use of by the end of this leg, no more getting laughed at for getting stuck in the mud! HA!

We took 'Dickhead' North at first to Northland (wouldnt have guessed from the name I bet?) We visited 90mile beach, which as the name suggests is a large area of sand and sea, the Bay of Islands along with the Largest Kauri tree in the world (second largest species after Californian redwoods) it truely was a monster over 18m in circumference thats around the base(I knew that maths GCSE would come in usefull..........even though it took me four attempts....sorry I digress) anyway very large and very impressive. We then took a couple of days to visit family my (Ant) Grandfathers brother who lives in Whangarei pronounced Faw-ngar-ai yep the New Zealand place names are just as confusing as the Welsh (for all you non Welsh of course) and Tans cousins, in-laws in Hamilton which was really nice, NZ already more than anywhere else has a really homley feel to it, maybe its the visiting family, the weather or the rugby or a mix of the three, but we're really enjoying.

We're now in Rotorua, which smells like Port Talbot after a curry. It's full of steaming Geysers, sticky mud and eggy wiffs but its a fantastic place, so many amazing things to see and do, with that in mind we'll bid our farewells and get to it.

Cheerybye, Ant and Tan xx