Really, really should have learned Spanish...

Man - this is hard! The past two days have been a succession of blank stares, 'no entiendo', and frantic but stealthy flipping of phrasebooks. We had a few days of listen and repeat lessons in the car in NZ, and some basic 'hello, thankyous' worked out, but we got here, …

A quick note from Christchurch

Christchurch - the city of ducks - is an awesome place. We spent all day wandering around yesterday - seeing all sorts of sights. There were ducks - plentiful ducks of all shapes and sizes.

Tom in Arrowtown warned us that Ch'ch is (paraphrasing a little here) 'a …

Weeeeeee!!!!111

Woke up this morning and, after a rousing game of 'mega duplo tower stack' with Isabella, headed out to Carol and Tom's new venture, the Arrowtown flight park - a dedicated landing field for hangliders and paragliders. We had a scout around …

The Beginning...

Oh man - the first post. The pressure.

Well - we made it to NZ - a pretty big first day - up at 3am to leave for the airport. It rained. We got to Sydney - it was raining. Flew to Christchurch (hereafter referred to via the charming local abbreviation 'ChCh') - it …