Thanks to all our hosts

 

Australia

Heather for letting us stay in her beautiful apartment in Cannonvale and to Sheena as well for entertaining us with the wallies.

Paul and Lynn for hosting us in Maleny Montville with some excellent cooking and a great trip around the area.

NZ

Dee and Hannah for looking after us so well (and their cats for entertaining us) in Napier. I’ve become addicted to the ginger nut biscuits Dee introduced us  to. Not sure they’ve done much good for our teeth as they are considerably harder than the English ones.

Mark and Christina for opening their house to us in Bendigo.  It was great to do shorter trips and come back and have a bed! And the drill/screwdriver came in handy for fixing the van. Not forgetting Dexter and Archie and their antics. I’ve also developed a liking for ginger beer! Luckily it is available in the UK.

And Christina for the night time tour of Auckland with all the spectacular boats.

Rachele for some excellent home cooking (especially the roast dinners!). Adam and Finn for taking us up the Port Hills in Lyttelton and nearly killing the pair of us.  Liam and Finn for washing the van for us.

USA

We also wanted to say thanks to Chris’s brother Zac and family for putting us up in California.

Rick Decker in Hawaii was very helpful with photography and diving tips. We much appreciated their home grown eggs. Gigi the cat was good (if noisy) company there.