Mount Ruapehu We had debated it for weeks and now it was decision time. There was the option to hike 20km along a gravel track to the famous Mt Ngauruhoe which was a stunt double for Mount Doom in...
New Zealand – Rotorua to Lake Taupo via the Waimangu Volcanic Valley
Frying Pan Lake – Smokin’! Waimangu Volcanic Valley As the days pass by and we begin to see an end to this escapade, I realise just what an incredible experience it has been and how lucky we are to...
New Zealand – Mt Manganui, Manganui Beach, the Skyline Rotorua and Luge!
I’m beginning to think that if there is superhuman: Usain Bolt, Sir Stephen Redgrave and Michael Phelps, then there is super, super human, which I have created especially for Michelle and I. We have taken on every challenge that...
New Zealand – Pahia to Tauranga via Auckland
Time to leave the Bay of Islands and head south. Again the weather was a packet of allsorts, one minute a bucket of sunshine, the next a colander full of light rain, warm rain. There is only one...
New Zealand – Russell Island, Doubtless Bay and the Ngawha Pools
The view from Flagstaff Up feeling like I was King of the camp this morning. Everyone else was leaving, such is the life of a traveller! Breakfast was woofed down and we soon found ourselves harbour side waiting for...
New Zealand – Auckland to the Bay of Islands
Chuggaboom 7 – The last of the Chuggabooms! The day of the Jucy Cabana had arrived. The spectre of camping had reared its head again almost 10 years after we had driven around Europe towing a caravan. For those...
Sydney – Shelly Beach and Farewell Australia
Shelly Beach, Manly After walking 13 miles around Sydney the day before, we rose late, rubbed our eyes and inspected ourselves. This was our last full day in Oz and both of our internal batteries were dead. Even...
Sydney – The wonderful World of Sydney!
As we boarded the ferry from Manly bound for Sydney (which for 15 AUD each to Circular Quay and the heart of the harbour was a worthy sum), we both had the same sense of excitement that you get seconds before...
The Great Ocean Drive – Jervis Bay to Sydney
The Great Ocean Drive – Jervis Bay to Sydney Anticipation All night I tossed and turned. Usually, my dreams are pretty basic. They either involve leading Chelsea out to play the FA Cup final or perhaps the start of...
The Great Ocean Drive – Narooma to Jervis Bay with a Surfing Kangaroo
Glasshouse Rocks being battered by the Pacific The soul is a strange thing, an invisible gauge of how we feel. If it becomes dis at eased then we are vulnerable to all the strange inner toxicity that can squeeze...