This is how to start a Monday morning properly… A few minutes after waking up, I slid the side door open, blinked out at the blue sky, then climbed out of bed and straight into my wetsuit. No one was even on the beach, let alone in the surf. There was not a breath of… Read more

Phase Two of the Sabbatical Adentures have begun and we are now nestled down in the back of our new camper van on the South Island of New Zealand. Grandad Taylor would have surely approved and in his honour we are camped up by a surf beach called ‘Taylor’s Misake’!?! I can hear the waves… Read more

It’s been our final day in the North Island today and we’ve spent it in our local Cambridge neighbourhood. The morning was spent sorting, planning and packing; the afternoon walking in the park by the lake, then watching the world go by over a coffee outside the deli on the corner. No major big adventures… Read more

Shock horror – Awoke to find a few clouds in the sky today! Some high cirrus were forming as we had our early breakfast and by mid-morning there was actually a decent amount covering our usual blue vista. Today though, with our plans to climb, we were actually greatful, as it would provide some welcome… Read more

Headed straight to the beach after breakfast this morning. There was still a pretty busy line-up, but nothing line the night before. Clare wasted no time establishing herself as body board supremo, by catching the longest ride of the day by far.  The waves wrap around a rocky point meaning that they always break in… Read more

We’d not been sure how to spend our last few days in the North Island. Stay local or drive off and see more tourist sights? We didn’t want to find that we’d exhausted ourselves trying to ‘tick off’ every possible sight, so opted for taking a two day surf trip on the neaby west coast.… Read more