Back in April we had our first real holiday in about four years. It was a grand old time we had in the North and South Islands of New Zealand and, though we went for 19 days, we really wished we could’ve had longer. We listened to a lot of advice from family, friends and colleagues before we went and did our research so we always had a rough plan though we generally played it by ear each day.
I’m not sure why we decided to go to New Zealand just as winter approached especially as we haven’t really seen much of Australia. I estimate that, from Sydney, we’ve been about 160 miles south (Canberra), 70 miles west (Jenolan Caves) and about 270 miles north (Coffs Harbour). That’s about 30,000 square miles out of the 30,000,000 available to us; only 1% of the country.
