What is going on in New Zealand? Or should I say how HOT (or should I say cold?)is it? Any way, it is at least 28 degrees. I heard it was only 4 degrees a few days ago. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! And yesterday I thought 28 degrees was a bit nippy. I don’t want to go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a quick note: i have changed the "comment" settings to allow anyone to post, and added a few email addreses that somehow were left out. Cheers, Gary.

This mans name is Jim. He is an old family friend. And when I say old ,Imean old. Like,at least 80 years old . He was in the army. He worked in the tea buisness with my great grandad. He had some funny stories about a bear ,a python,a horse ,a dog and a bedroom. It didn't go well for the dog. He ,ahhh sort of got eaten. Poor dogy-wogy.

Hey-ho you guys, whats been going on? We are on stop two of goodness knows how many, we are in Colombo. Its the largest city. Its about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, which means it ia about midnight back there. Its very humid, which means you sweat A LOT!! It is a very exciting and busy place. More soon. Nick

When Nick gets out of the pool, he promises to update his blog. In the meantime,here are some of his pictures. Gary.

Hi this is just a tester but man I am excited!One Week to go...

Before we go...

a test post to nicks blog