2 years later...Im now living and working in New Zealand

Ok so its been 2 years since i updated this travel blog - hopefully that says something positive about me (like 'i have a life' lol) rather than 'im a lazy git whos not good about keeping things up to date'. And to be honest, i think ive managed to cram quite a bit into the last 2 years, including a bit of travelling, which i have conciously decided to include as part of my life ie i intend to go travelling for 3 months every year (around June/July/August), partly to avoid NZ's cold winters but thats another story in itself.

A story that started over 2 1/2 years ago when I first went to New Zealand and culminated last October when I got my Residents Permit/Visa, which allows me to stay and work in the land of the long white cloud for as long as I like. Which is handy, since i have no intention of going back to the uk to live (only to visit friends and try and encourage them to travel too, lol). So since NZ's winter months coincide with UK's summer, my plan is to go to visit friends in teh uk for a few weeks every summer and spend the rest of the 3 month period in Thailand, and also hopefully fit in one new country every year - Cambodia was the plan for this year, but finances have not gone as smoothly as i would have liked, so we'll see what happens with that.