Home. The most beautiful place!

NZ is SUCH a stunning place, as we flew towards the Land of the Long White Cloud we saw the cool blue waters of the Pacific lapping the edge of Aoearoa and felt a surge of joy.  Yay!  How marvellous to call this country ours.  We've been away a long time, and we've had the best time.  And now it's time to make happy memories in NZ too.  Bring it on!

We reminisced about all the brilliant kiwi things we love so much ...

People - we're thankful for our families and friends who we cherish, and the memories still to be made

Clean air to breathe.  It's such a pleasant reality we often forget to be gratefulful for

Crunchy apples

The taste of tap water.  Especially from the bathroom tap (there's something about the taste of water that's been through copper pipes!). We've purchased so much bottled water over the past months, but nothing beats kiwi tap water!  

Salad sandwiches made with fresh iceberg lettuce, sunblushed tomatoes, carrot, beetroot, cheese and lashings of avo.  Mmmm!

Toilets that you don't need to squat over (it's hard if you're trekking and have sore thighs, especially when you need to do a 'long squat')

The smiles of people who are genuinely friendly and want to be helpful (Melbourne airport take note!)

Clean beaches, that you can relish without a hoard of six million others stepping over your towel

Vogels bread with Marmite and avocado

Green.  Green hills, green forests, green parks

Riding our motorbikes on long roadies 

Tui choruses 

Finding the Southern Cross in the night sky

Goody gum drop ice cream on Wainui Beach

The logic and efficiency of how things happen, and how officials are up front about expectations

Going to work and spending our days in a way that benefit our community

Being able to cook whatever we like

Not having to lug a backpack around

Having multiples shoe options

Stuff like that!  And we're looking forward to seeing YOU and catching up over the next few days and weeks (perhaps a bit longer for those far away!).  Thanks for reading our yarns and checking out our pics, thanks for loving us and sending us soooo many messages. We're definitely the luckiest lasses on the planet!

We've planned another getaway in a couple of years, so tell us your travel stories and best hangouts to explore.  This planet is ninety-three million miles from the sun, with still so much to explore on the earth, let alone venturing into space!

Over the next couple of months Blandy is gonna get her builder's belt on, and craft a tiny house.  It's an exciting project to come home to.  If you're keen to follow that adventure then keep your eyes peeled for our new blog over the next week or so.

Bry is gonna be working in Gisborne, so if you're around that way, be sure to pop in!

Big thanks for journeying with us.  Long live our beautiful planet

Bry and Blandy xx

PS the next posts on here will be about our adventures in spectacular New Zealand.  Can't wait!