It’s not that we’ve eaten anything dodgy but yesterday we arrived into Taupo – home of NZ’s largest lake with a major wind blowing.  Waves were crashing, dust blowing and it was bitterly cold. Previous few days have seen us go out with dolphins although we didn’t get to swim as there were baby dolphins [...]

We’re currently sat relaxing at the Kingfisher Retreat in Keri Keri writing the first of our New Zealand blogs. After a long flight we arrived yesterday morning in Auckland and it has to be said that the customs and such were so much easier and quicker than in our country. We got picked up in [...]

We’ve not updated in a while but a lot has happened.  Dave completed his triathlon, the wedding is booked and we’re 3 days away from our trip to New Zealand. Wedding is booked for 20th September 2008 in Llyswen near Brecon with the service at a local church and then the reception at Llangoed Hall.  We’ll be [...]

We’ve just returned from our first holiday of the year… Sunny Sardinia. The Hopkins family (+1) invaded the Italian island for a week, and had a great time. We stayed in a lovely set of villas, with a great pool (which for some reason we managed to empty within 30 mins everytime we descended upon [...]

We’ve finalized our New Zealand itinerary, funnily enough only just before we go to Sardinia for a week. The list is as follows Arrive Auckland via Hong Kong Kerikeri (Bay of Islands) Coopers Bay Auckland Waitomo Caves Taupo Taupo (go to Rotorua) Palmerstone North Wellington Interislander Ferry to Picton Kaikoura Christchurch Greymouth Franz Josef Wanaka [...]

Today we booked our flights. We fly out on November 7th in the evening and via Hong Kong make our way to Auckland. Here we pick up our vehicle (which may be a camper or a car depending on what we decide) and head off on a 21 day whistle stop tour of NZ. We [...]

We’ve spent the last week trying to work out our holiday plans for the year and it’s not easy. The plan is to Fly to Auckland, hire a camper van and then drive around the two islands (complete with ferry crossing) for 3 weeks before flying back home from Christchurch. We’ve had to check flights, [...]

[image:877:c:s=5] I’ve upload more pictures from Alaska. Believe it or not this blue is completely genuine and just like it was like down a glacier crevasse. I’ve not image processed this shot all all.

Felt I should post having had a moan about it previously. Following our return from holiday I set about recovering some of the pictures I lost from the memory card that corrupted. The software I used was Zero Assumption Recovery which is does more than just flash card recovery but for images is completely free. [...]

[thumb:832:l]I’ve chosen a selection of our Alaska photos and processed them to look their best (or at least as far as my photoshop knowledge allows). It’s a lot better than just dumping an entire set of photos onto the gallery as I’ve done previously. Used the Rawshooter program for the first time which has some [...]