We are aiming for going out next year. I am trying to decide whether we should make our first week there into a holiday. We toured the South Island earlier this year but didn't touch the north Island, I was thinking possibly about hiring a camper van and driving down from Aukland to Christchurch. The rational is that with the smaller number of NZ holidays, we are unlikely to get time to do it later. That and I reckon with the jet lag we won't be fit to work for a week.

The other alternative is to get a stopover in perhaps India which is a place that I have wanted to go to for years (though not sure if my sari collection could take all that temptation lol)

thoughts?