Until next time...

So we’ve come to the end of our New Zealand adventure, and I’m sat on the plane watching the sun come up over the cloudy Tasman Sea wondering what adventures we’ll have next.

We had a truly brilliant time Wwoofing with this wonderful lady, her cheeky little dog Scooter, and Natasha, Precious and Rachel our 3 marvellous chickeny friends who accompanied us around the garden in what-ever we were up to (alas more for the grubs in our wake than our company).

Precious having a dust-bath!

Golden Bay is a simply magical little corner of NZ which could so easily be overlooked as an unnecessary detour. We just loved it and spent our spare time visiting golden beaches, fresh-water springs, bird-watching on the Farewell spit, hunting down waterfalls, sipping coffee in Takaka and drinking locally-brewed cider and ale in an incredible pub called The Mussel Inn (worth the journey to Golden Bay all by itself-Dad you’d love it!), and listening to live music (Bella Kalolo is awesome-look her up!) with the locals. It really was our tiny piece of paradise in New Zealand!

We feel distinctly like we’ve started our trip on such a high that everything else now has so much to live up to! SO...come on the Australia, give us all you’ve got!