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Blimey, no blog since the beginning of September, I'll have to do something about that...!

Duck Action Shot

Took a shedload of pics of HK views and the like but haven't uploaded them yet. Just so you know that in taking the pics I will upload tomorrow (back home!) I was mauled no less than 15 times by rogue insects and I am now covered from ankle to thigh in plasters.

In the meantime here is an action shot of our waiter cutting up our Peking duck for consumption with pankcakes etc. He did the whole folding pankcake thing with chopsticks - v. impressive! Shame he only did the first ones for us...

For me, I have to say with all honesty that the food's been OK, but nothing here in HK has topped our very own Famous Chinese in Letchworth Garden City.

Sometime in the next couple of days we will post our final blogs, along with a few more pics.

Now we've got to catch a plane!

Big Buddha

Australia has the Big Pineapple, the Big Sheep and the Big Macadamia.
New Zealand has the Big Golfball and the Big Fish.
Hong Kong has the Big Buddha. It's bigger than the other big things.

London Bombings

We're taking a brief break from the holiday blog to express our shock and sadness at the events in London this morning.

Most of our friends and family have been accounted for. We're still waiting on a couple of people, but hopefully it's the mobile phone networks being down that are causing concern.

We will blog again tomorrow. Life has to go on and we've got a holiday to finish :)

Best wishes and stay safe,

R'n'C. x

Convict spotted in Sydney Harbour...

Description:

- Approx 6'2"
- No distinguishing features but some strange ones
- Answers to own name and several others

Do not feed.
Do not approach under any circumstances.

No Sydney pics just yet...

In the absence of any Sydney pics yet (I haven't uploaded the first lot yet) here's a nice picture of a koala I took at Currumbin about a month ago.

Obscene portions

We had a mid afternoon snack here yesterday to escape the rain.

Eating their dessert pankcakes could kill you (if you ate them every day for about 5 years.) I recommend the crepes. They are truly great, albeit a cholesterol nightmare.

Back in Oz again...

We're back in Oz, this time in Sydney. So far we've managed to lose some money (don't wory, not that much, Mum) at the casino, eat Chinese food and not much else, but we'll have more to report in the next few days.

Where have we been?

Well, as we come to the end of our NZ adventure (more blogs to come, more things to tell you about) the above map shows the complete route we've taken, starting at Christchurch and ending up here in Auckland.

Smelly smelly Rotarura...

Rotarua is smelly. Very smelly. The smell (of suphur) permeates *everywhere* - clothes, hotel rooms, up our noses. We stayed at a nice hotel by Lake Rotarua but that didn't stop both R and myself waking up loads in the night because it was so smelly. Ugh.

Thankyou? I don't think so...

This is a special post for Chrissy B who we think will like this.

None of your namby-pamby "Thankyou" one word crap here! ;)

Taupo, land of steaming piles...

...of mud.



This is "Craters of the Moon" at Taupo. All the smoky stuff you can see is steam coming up through naturally created vents in the ground after the nearby power station lowered underground water levels in the 1950s and affected the geography in the area around it. The vents come in the form of fumeroles and craters and some of these gurgle away loudly.

It's called "Craters of the Moon" because somebody thought it looked "other worldly". Actually it just looks like someone's blown a load of holes in the ground on Earth, but it's very interesting and quite weird.

More blog updates tomorrow...

Hello,

After another short break whilst we've been travelling up the North Island we will be updating the blog again tomorrow (or today, we're 11 hours ahead of the UK here)

Blog items to look forward to:

Mildly smelly Lake Taupo
Very Smelly Rotarua
More pics
More hard hitting expose from Rozzer!