G'day mate

Good news our dream is now so much closer that it is getting a bit scary. We have talked about going Australia and New Zealand for a while and this week we got the ok for taking some time off. So we are looking into flights - do we go with one or more stops, route - where the heck are we going and what is there to see and then there is the visas etc.

So we are heading down under in late September or early October for eight weeks of cycle touring. The plan at the moment is three or so weeks in Oz and the rest in NZ on the south island. In Australia we are planing to visit friends in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane just need to figure out in what order and what else to see. Then fly over to New Zealand where the cycle touring starts in ernest.

So we better get used to how they talk down there and this click from the mighty Monty Python's is a good start me things :)

Any advice - on what to bring, where to go, what to see and of course what to EAT ! That last bit might be a problem for Peli since they do like their meat on a barbeque. I remember that from when I last was in Australia in '93, feck me am I that old !