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Well, we've just about come to the end of our time in New Zealand.  

 

As you can probably tell we've had a wonderful couple of months here. The country has been even more beautiful than we expected, and there has been so much do see and do. I'll never forget my bungy-jumping and sky-diving, but there have been so many other highlights - swimming with dolphins, flying over glaciers, spotting penguins, seals and sealions, cruising the fjords, climbing a volcano.....the list goes on and on. We can really understand why people would want to emigrate here - it has the feel of being at home in the UK, but with much more beautiful scenery, far fewer people and (in the summer at least) better weather. We've no plans to emigrate (bit too far away from all our friends and family) but we'll definitely be back!

 

 

We've had a nice few days in Auckland. It's a bit like a smaller scale Sydney, sitting beside a beautiful harbour and populated with lots of Asians! One difference though is that it's built on an active volcano zone - in face there are 42 volcanoes in the city! We visitied the museum today and went to a pretty scary exhibit on what might happen if one of them blew - after watching that I'm pretty glad we're about to head off!

 

 

Tomorrow we fly to Santiago, Chile, on what will be the longest day of our lives. There's a 16 hour time difference between Chile and NZ, so we will arrive in Santiago 5 hours before we leave Auckland! I've always fancied a bit of time travel.....