Time seemed to stop and progress in a way I've never experienced sober. The 30 hours of non stop travelling fun covered London to Bangkok to Sydney to Auckland to Nelson. I thought that my brain might leak from my ears, or perhaps my knees might explode. But alas no, here we are.

Seeing Rosie off at Bangkok was surprisingly emotional. I know she'll do well on her four month travels, she's good at landing on her feet. I slept during take off from Bangkok and the landing in Sydney, which further added to the feeling of random time. Our last flight was in a tiny little propellored plane. The sound and vibrations from the large metal propellors spinning about 4 foot from my head made me feel giddy. I wasn't going to sleep though. I was going to make it through and then crash like I had never crashed before. I awoke toward the end of the flight. The kind stewardess bought me sweet. I don't do sweets. It tasted great. Its amazing how I need to consume to get though the travelling.

We landed in Nelson and the baggage reclaim was a guy turing up in a truck with a trailer. Very cute airport. Nothing like the serious heavy nature of international affairs. No passports, no (obvious) security and actually when we got out boarding passes for it them took our word for it that we were the Selby's. No ID required apparently (hmm...)

From New Zealand On the Family Holiday

The camper van arrived and Jenna and I regressed to teenagers again. We lay in the back whilst my parents looked around the van and were taughts its gizmo's and gimmicks. I like to work these out in my own time, I can persuade myself that yes, I have definately learnt it far better, and that extra time spent was SO worth it.

Our camp side was like arriving at Glastonbury without the music. Kids ran amok with their sub bass bins and cider (okay kids = 18-24; cider = generic alcohol). I am obviously getting old as I had to ask the security when the noise might stop. Didn't matter anyway. I slept as soon as my eyes closed. Twelve hours later I awoke feeling like someone had done wrestling back drops on me whilst hitting my head with a rubber chicken. Perhaps they do that kind of think whilst you sleep in NZ...

So now I am in Nelson. Oh, one note about my card. I contacted the bank prior to travelling to tell them I was travelling and to not stop my card when it is used in NZ. They warmly told me that it would be blocked and there was nothing I could do about it other than call the fraud department when I got there and it was blocked. Nya nya nya nya nya. So after my card was blocked I rang them. $15 later I have been told that the only department that can help me is open when NZ is asleep. So I have to ring midnight tonight.

Still. We are here. We're off to a Japanese Thermal Baths tonight in Maruia Springs. Apparently we can lie in the pools looking up to the stars. Sounds awesome. Just hope I don't have a random jetlag sleep crash whilst I'm in the pool.

From New Zealand On the Family Holiday

The Family...

Okay I'm off to see if I can buy new back muscles and brain.