back to being sweaty

We arrived back in vanuatu on wednesday to a tropical downpour and a wall of heat. We had a really great trip to New Zealand and my camera is now full of a stupid number of incredible views and nearly as many photos of the lovely ella, here are a couple of both.

The climate, countryside and comforts of modern life all seemed like such a treat. We had a lovely few days being looked after by kate and grant and really felt quite spoilt. Then we had about ten days in the south island which wasnt nearly long enough; we usually had a day in places where we could have easily spent a week.

We spent a few days walking the Queen Charlotte track and in the Abel Tasman national park, because these are such popular places to go in the kiwi summer holidays we'd been warned they might be really busy but we ended up seeing a couple of people an hour at most and loads of the time it felt like we had the place to ourselves.