Where-ever I lay my hat

We leave Christchurch Saturday 8 December early in the morning 0700 on Pacific Blue to Sydney, Australia.
We'll stay with Michelle and Chris until Tuesday 11 December when we fly Jetstar to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, then Air Asia to Kuching, Malaysia.
We'll stay with Ying and MaoJie until Monday 17 Decemberwhen we fly back to Kuala Lumpurlate at night. At 2am on Tuesday 18 December (Steve’s Birthday) we fly Emirates to Dubai, UAE, and on to Vienna, Austria.
We get in about midday and have to find somewhere to stay for the night before heading by train to Bratislava the next day.
We're not sure yet where we'll spend christmas or when we'll get to England but probably sometime between 27 Dec and 2 Jan.
Plans as yet are not certain (or even tentative) - we're going to wing it. We have not got work sorted out yet and no plan for where we want to be. We'll look for work as live-in carer/ groundsman or possibly locum work in physio /finance but will take what we can get to begin with. I fancy working in a bookshop for a wee while.

We do plan to have another wedding/thanksgiving party on March 18 (the Celtic wedding was for a year and a day so its an excuse for a party every year! or at least a private reafirmation ceremony) which we hope to do at White Castle in Wales and rent a cottage/castle nearby for a group to stay in. All our friends are invited.
After that we will head in to Europe and go WWOOFing for a few months. We'd like to work in tulip fields, wineries, lavender farms, olive groves and anywhere they do great traditional cooking. The goal is to learn as much as possible and experience as much 'real' culture as possible rather than just being tourists.

Update 5 April
We leave birmingham on 10 April and go to Welford for a night then have a night on the south coast before catchign a ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe (France) and driving to southern Normandy for two weeks
On 27 April we move down to Perigeaux in the Dordogne for a further two weeks.

We fly out of Gatwick on 17 August to Vancouver via Calgary and arrive in vancouver about 3pm. WE'll possibly stay overnight in Vancouver or go straight to Victoria for a few days.
On 21 August we leave Campbell River (Vancouver Island) for 4 days on a kayak trip based in tents on teh edge of the Orca reserve - the primary goal being to spot Orcas close up from our kayaks
On 25 August we have a one day trip to Knight Inlet to watch the Grizzly bears fishing for salmon in the river.
Then we head back to Vancouver and stay overnight before hopping on a cruise boat (Carnival Spirit) from 27 August and ending in Anchorage on 3 Sept.
Then we have a camper van booked for a week to travel around the Kenai Peninsula to look for moose
We fly out of Anchorage on 11 Sept to San Fransisco where we have a convertible mustang booked to explore Yosemite for 4 days staying outside the park in a 'tent cabin'. I'm hoping to get brave and fit enough to climb half dome but keep looking at how steep the sides are and having second thoughts.
Finally on 16 September we fly from San Fransisco via Sydney and get back to Christchurch on Thursday 18 Sept at 2.50pm