ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing
is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......

Monday, 10 February 2014

Introducing Te Maru

We picked up our campervan back in Christchurch on Friday evening 7 February. I've called it 'Te Maru', which is Maori for 'place of shelter', or 'Tem' for short. Applying the Kiwi language rule (changing 'e' to 'i' ) this means the van's called 'Tim'.


The van will be our home now until the end of March.
And here's a photo showing - using Lawson's words - 'some idiot trying to squeeze himself and a large piece of luggage into a small van'.
 (Joan, you did warn us that we needed to go for a big van!).







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